137 N.C. App. 387 - Walker v. Sloan’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
131 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 176 N.C. App. 33 - Bob Timberlake Collection, Inc. v. Edwards (2006), 157 N.C. App. 1 - Compton v. Kirby (2003)
131 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 Marshall v. Miller · Johnson v. Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance · Barger v. McCoy Hillard & Parks · Green Ex Rel. Downs v. Duke Power Co. · 132 N.C. App. 341 - Hudson-Cole Development Corp. v. Beemer
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 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o state a claim for wrongful interference with prospective advantage, the plaintiffs must allege facts to show that the defendants acted without justification in inducing a third party from entering into a contract with them which contract would have ensued but for the interference.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he trial court regards all factual allegations of the complaint as true. Legal conclusions, however, are not entitled to a presumption of truth.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Dismissal is warranted (1) when the face of the complaint reveals that no law supports plaintiffs' claim; (2) when the face of the complaint reveals that some fact essential to plaintiffs' claim is missing; or (3) when some fact disclosed in the complaint defeats plaintiffs' claim.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.