138 N.C. App. 19 - Poor v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 district · 298 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 362 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 155 N.C. App. 462 - Toomer v. Garrett (2002), 200 N.C. App. 162 - Carcano v. JBSS, LLC (2009)
2 district · 298 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 · United Laboratories, Inc. v. Kuykendall · Dickinson v. Pake · 101 N.C. App. 450 - Spartan Leasing Inc. v. Pollard
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 362 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The elements of a claim for breach of contract are (1) existence of a valid contract and (2) breach of the terms of that contract.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where the same course of conduct gives rise to a traditionally recognized cause of action, as, for example, an action for breach of contract, and as well gives rise to a fcause of action for violation of G.S. 75-1.1, damages may be recovered either for the breach of contract, or for violation of G.S. 75-1.1 ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall have a right of action on account of such injury done, and if damages are assessed in such case judgment shall be rendered in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendant for treble the amount fixed by the verdict.”
1 later decision 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.