Shugar v. Guill’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Henry v. Deen (1984), United Laboratories, Inc. v. Kuykendall (1993)
2 federal appellate · 63 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 · Stanback v. Stanback · Oestreicher v. American National Stores, Inc. · Newton v. Standard Fire Insurance · Presnell v. Pell
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[b]y enactment of G.S. 1A-1, the legislature adopted the `notice theory of pleading.' " Roberts v. Memorial Park, 281 N.C. 48, 56 , 187 S.E.2d 721, 725 (1972). In our first case which considered the "notice pleading" theory of the new Rules of Civil Procedure, Justice Sharp (later Chief Justice) wrote: A pleading complies with the rule if it gives sufficient notice of the events or transactions which produced the claim to enable the adverse party to understand the nature of it and the basis for it, to file a responsive pleading, and by using the rules provided for obtaining pretrial discoveryto get any additional information he may need to prepare for trial. Sutton v. Duke, 277 N.C. 94, 104 , 176 S.E.2d 161, 167 (1970). Accord: Presnell v. Pell, 298 N.C. 715 , 260 S.E.2d 611 (1979); Brewer v. Harris, 279 N.C. 288 , 182 S.E.2d 345 (1971).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In jury trials the usual rules governing motions for a directed verdict apply when there is such a motion as to a claim for punitive damages on the grounds of insufficiency of evidence, and the trial judge must determine as a matter of law whether the evidence when considered in the light most favorable to plaintiff is sufficient to carry the issue of punitive damages to the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[P]unitive damages ... may only be awarded when a cause of action otherwise exists in which at least nominal damages are recoverable by the plaintiff.”
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.