113 N.C. App. 598 - Long v. Vertical Technologies, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Dalton v. Camp (2001), Food Lion Incorporated v. Capital Cities/abc Inc (1999)
31 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 Dickens v. Puryear · Williams v. Pilot Life Insurance Company · Stewart v. Nation-Wide Check Corporation · 80 N.C. App. 561 - Hinson v. Hinson · 57 N.C. App. 249 - Tallent v. Blake
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here an employee deliberately acquires an interest adverse to his employer, he is disloyal, and his discharge is justified.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`when a servant becomes engaged in a business which necessarily renders him a competitor and rival of his master, no matter how much or how little time and attention he devotes to it, he has an interest against his duty.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that the communication was made in good faith and without malice.”
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.