157 N.C. App. 1 - Compton v. Kirby’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably LeVasseur v. Commonwealth (1983), Kaplan v. O.K. Technologies, L.L.C. (2009)
71 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 Dalton v. Camp · Johnson v. Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance · Hajmm Co. v. House of Raeford Farms, Inc. · Myers & Chapman v. Thomas G. Evans · Olivetti Corp. v. Ames Business Systems, Inc.
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is elementary that the relationship of partners is fiduciary and imposes on them the obligation of the utmost good faith in their dealings with one another in respect to partnership affairs. Each is the confidential agent of the other, and each has a right to know all that the others know, and each is required to make full disclosure of all material facts within his knowledge in any way relating to the partnership affairs.” .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] breach of fiduciary duty amounts to constructive fraud.... As we have already determined that plaintiffs established the existence of a fiduciary duty and a breach of that duty, we likewise conclude the issue of constructive fraud was properly submitted to the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[u]nfair methods of competition in or affecting commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce,”
2 later decisions 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.