Stanback v. Stanback’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 539 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 614 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 85 N.C. App. 669 - Harris v. NCNB National Bank of North Carolina (1987), Dickens v. Puryear (1981)
18 federal appellate · 2 district · 539 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 · Crisci v. Security Insurance · Kessing v. National Mortgage Corporation · Oestreicher v. American National Stores, Inc. · Newton v. Standard Fire Insurance
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 614 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The motion to dismiss under N.C. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6) tests the legal sufficiency of the complaint. In ruling on the motion the allegations of the complaint must be viewed as admitted, and on that basis the court must determine as a matter of law whether the allegations state a claim for which relief may be granted.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage“committed some wilful act whereby he sought to use the existence of the proceeding to gain advantage of the plaintiff in respect to some collateral matter.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim is ... converted to a Rule 56 motion for summary judgment when matters outside the pleadings are presented to and not excluded by the court.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.