200 N.C. App. 1 - Woods v. Mangum’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “[sjummary judgment, by definition, is always based on two underlying questions of law: (1) whether there is a genuine issue of material fact and (2) whether the moving party is entitled to judgment. On appeal, review of summary judgment is necessarily limited to whether the trial court’s conclusions as to these questions of law were correct ones. As the applicable standard of review is de novo, an appellate court must carefully examine the entire record in reviewing a grant of summary judgment, in order to assess the correctness of the trial court’s determination of the two questions of law automatically raised by summary judgment[.]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 201 N.C. App. 425 - Hewett v. Weisser · 206 N.C. App. 756 - Peterson v. POLK-SULLIVAN, LLC