176 N.C. App. 656 - Strickland v. Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably 181 N.C. App. 742 - Esposito v. Talbert & Bright, Inc. (2007), JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Ass'n v. Browning (2013)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 46 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 · Howerton v. Arai Helmet, Ltd. · Dobson v. Harris · Lowe v. Bradford · 113 N.C. App. 19 - Liggett Group, Inc. v. Sunas
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For a fiduciary duty to exist there must first be a fiduciary relationship, which is a relationship in which `there has been a special confidence reposed in one who in equity and good conscience is bound to act in good faith and with due regard to the interests of the one reposing confidence.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“As a matter of law, there can be no fiduciary relationship between 'parties in equal bargaining positions dealing at arm's length, even though they are mutually interdependent businesses.'”
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.