181 N.C. App. 511 - Burgin v. Owen’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
74 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 147 N.C. App. 52 - Oberlin Capital, L.P. v. Slavin · Wood v. Guilford County · 85 N.C. App. 338 - Dixon v. Stuart · Forbis v. Honeycutt · Baucom's Nursery Co. v. Mecklenburg 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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Dismissal under Rule 12(b)(6) is proper when one of the following three conditions is satisfied: (1) the complaint on its face reveals that no law supports the plaintiff's claim; (2) the complaint on its face reveals the absence of facts sufficient to make a good claim; or (3) the complaint discloses some fact that necessarily defeats the plaintiff's claim.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage“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.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The complaint must be liberally construed, and [a] court should not dismiss the complaint unless it appears beyond a doubt that the plaintiff could not prove any set of facts to support his claim which would entitle him to relief.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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