109 N.C. App. 271 - Andrews v. Elliot’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably 153 N.C. App. 25 - Boyce & Isley, PLLC v. Cooper (2002), 114 N.C. App. 524 - Donovan v. Fiumara (1994)
44 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Lister v. United States · 85 N.C. App. 669 - Harris v. NCNB National Bank of North Carolina · Presnell v. Pell · Renwick v. News & Observer Publishing Co. · Flake Ex Rel. Flake v. Greensboro News Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To be actionable, a defamatory statement must be false and must be communicated to a person or persons other than the person defamed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[D]efamatory words to be libelous per se must be susceptible of but one meaning and of such nature that the court can presume as a matter of law that they tend to disgrace and degrade the party or hold him up to public hatred, contempt or ridicule, or cause him to be shunned and avoided.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Dismissal under Rule 12(b)(6) is proper when on its face the complaint reveals either no law supports the plaintiff's claim or the absence of fact sufficient to make a good claim, or when some fact disclosed in the complaint necessarily defeats the plaintiff's claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.