129 N.C. App. 586 - Boyd v. Drum’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably 145 N.C. App. 525 - Lake Mary Ltd. Partnership v. Johnston (2001), Sykes v. Health Network Solutions, Inc. (2019)
2 district · 45 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 · Johnson v. Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance · United Laboratories, Inc. v. Kuykendall · 107 N.C. App. 53 - Branch Banking and Trust Co. v. Thompson · Myers & Chapman v. Thomas G. Evans
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.
“[I]t is well-recognized that actions for unfair or deceptive trade practices are distinct from actions for breach of contract. A mere breach of contract, even if intentional, is not sufficiently unfair or deceptive to sustain an action under N.C. Gen.Stat. § 75-1.1. Substantial aggravating circumstances attendant to the breach must be shown.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A practice is unfair when it offends established public policy as well as when the practice is immoral, unethical, oppressive, unscrupulous, or substantially injurious to consumers.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`possessed the tendency or capacity to mislead, or created the likelihood of deception. '”
2 later decisions 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.