166 N.C. App. 129 - Woolard v. Davenport’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 182 N.C. App. 229 - Parker v. Glosson (2007), 203 N.C. App. 88 - Marzec v. Nye (2010)
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 Sutton v. Duke · 138 N.C. App. 19 - Poor v. Hill · Oates v. Jag, Inc. · Barger v. McCoy Hillard & Parks · Wood v. Guilford County
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[F]or purposes of reviewing a 12(b)(6) motion made on the grounds that the plaintiff lacked standing, a real party in interest is a party who is benefitted or injured by the judgment in the case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[d]ocuments attached as exhibits to the complaint and incorporated therein by reference are properly considered when ruling on a 12(b)(6) motion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) existence of a valid contract and (2) breach of the terms of that contract.”
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.