138 N.C. App. 201 - Dalton v. Camp’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably 200 N.C. App. 162 - Carcano v. JBSS, LLC (2009), 147 N.C. App. 362 - Combs & Associates, Inc. v. Kennedy (2001)
25 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 · Marshall v. Miller · Hajmm Co. v. House of Raeford Farms, Inc. · Childress v. Abeles · Peoples Security Life Insurance v. Hooks
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To prevad on a claim of unfair and deceptive trade practice a [claimant] must show (1) an unfair or deceptive act or practice, or an unfair method of competition, (2) in or affecting commerce, (3) which proximately caused actual injury to the [claimant] or to his business. A [trade] 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. Additionally, a party is guilty of an unfair act or practice when it engages in conduct which amounts to an inequitable assertion of its power or position. The question of whether a particular practice is unfair or deceptive is a legal one, reserved for the court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A party may prove an action for civil conspiracy by circumstantial evidence; however, sufficient evidence of the agreement must exist 'to create more than a suspicion or conjecture in order to justify submission of the issue to a jury.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If a party makes this showing, all of the conspirators are jointly and severally liable for the act of any one of them done in furtherance of the agreement.”
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.