148 N.C. App. 147 - Cline v. McCullen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 state decisions

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In reviewing a Rule 12(b)(6) motion, a court must determine `whether, as a matter of law, the allegations of the complaint, treated as true, are sufficient to state a claim upon which relief may be granted under some legal theory, whether properly labeled or not.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dalenko v. WAKE COUNTY DEPT. OF HUMAN SERV. · Wolfe v. The Archimedes Acad.

2. “A person who is not a party but who controls an action, individually or in cooperation with others, is bound by the adjudications of litigated matters as if he were a party if he has a proprietary interest or financial interest in the judgment or in the determination of a question of fact or a question of law with reference to the same subject matter, or transactions-, if the other party has notice of his participation, the other party is equally bound.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Williams v. Peabody

3. “The trial court may grant this motion if `there is a want of law to support a claim of the sort made, an absence of facts sufficient to make a good claim, or the disclosure of some fact which will necessarily defeat the claim.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dalenko v. WAKE COUNTY DEPT. OF HUMAN SERV.