133 N.C. App. 210 - Ausley v. Bishop’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably 153 N.C. App. 25 - Boyce & Isley, PLLC v. Cooper (2002), 147 N.C. App. 315 - Everts v. Parkinson (2001)
30 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 Stanback v. Stanback · Dickens v. Puryear · Johnson v. Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance · 79 N.C. App. 483 - Hogan v. Forsyth Country Club Co. · 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Despite extensive questioning during his deposition, [Thomas] was unable to establish, or even estimate, damages caused by the alleged breach.... In the absence of evidence of any damage caused by [Defendants’] actions, the trial court properly granted [Defendants’] motion for summary judgment as to this issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[u]nfair methods of competition in or affecting commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce, are declared unlawful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The record is to be viewed in the light most favorable to the non-movant, giving it the benefit of all inferences reasonably arising therefrom.”
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.