136 N.C. App. 768 - Stephenson v. Warren’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably 200 N.C. App. 162 - Carcano v. JBSS, LLC (2009), 138 N.C. App. 582 - Miller v. Rose (2000)
32 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 United Laboratories, Inc. v. Kuykendall · 127 N.C. App. 1 - ESTATE OF SMITH, BY & THROUGH SMITH v. Underwood · 135 N.C. App. 143 - Market America, Inc. v. Christman-Orth · 96 N.C. App. 359 - Adams v. Moore · Whitten v. Bob King's AMC/Jeep, Inc.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Once the movant makes the required showing, the burden shifts to the non-moving party to produce a forecast of evidence demonstrating specific facts, as opposed to allegations, establishing at least a prima facie case at trial.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) a valid contract between plaintiff and a third person that confers upon plaintiff a contractual right against a third person; (2) the defendant knows of the contract; (3) the defendant intentionally induces the third person not to perform the contract; (4) the defendant acts without justification; and (5) the defendant’s conduct causes actual pecuniary harm to plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Undue influence is a fraudulent influence over the mind and will of another to the extent that the professed action is not freely done but is in truth the act of the one who procures the result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Binkley v. Binkley
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.