145 N.C. App. 706 - Spears v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2025
19 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 31 N.C. App. 463 - Huss v. Huss · 70 N.C. App. 523 - Hyde v. Taylor
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Discovery' is defined as actual discovery or the time when the fraud should have been discovered in the exercise of due diligence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“relief on the ground of fraud or mistake; the cause of action shall not be deemed to have accrued until the discovery by the aggrieved party of the facts constituting the fraud or mistake.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Failure to exercise due diligence may be determined as a matter of law, however, where it is clear that there was both capacity and opportunity to discover the [fraud].”
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.