189 N.C. App. 755 - Carpenter v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 196 N.C. App. 557 - Reese v. City of Charlotte (2009), Bigelow v. Town of Chapel Hill (2013)
93 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 171 N.C. App. 58 - Toomer v. Branch Banking and Trust Co. · In the Matter of T.S.A. · 161 N.C. App. 20 - Broughton v. McClatchy Newspapers, Inc. · 38 N.C. App. 310 - Shellhorn v. Brad Ragan, Inc. · 144 N.C. App. 79 - Groves v. Community Housing Corp. of Haywood 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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[We review] a trial court’s grant of a motion for judgment on the pleadings de novo. Judgment on the pleadings, pursuant to Rule 12(c), is appropriate when all the material allegations of fact are admitted in the pleadings and only questions of law remain.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] motion for judgment on the pleadings should not be granted unless the movant clearly establishes that no material issue of fact remains to be resolved and that the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“This Court reviews a trial court's grant of a motion for judgment on the pleadings de novo .”
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.