Brooks v. Giesey’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 145 N.C. App. 621 - Henderson v. Wachovia Bank of North Carolina, N.A. (2001), Griffin v. Griffin (1998)
82 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 Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Business Guides, Inc. v. Chromatic Communications Enterprises, Inc. · Sutton v. Duke · Zaldivar v. City of Los Angeles · Turner v. Duke University
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“discovery request, response, or objection.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The trial court’s decision to impose or not to impose mandatory sanctions under [N.C. Gen. Stat.] § 1A-1, Rule 11(a) is reviewable de novo as a legal issue. In the de novo review, the appellate court will determine (1) whether the trial court’s conclusions of law support its judgment or determination, (2) whether the trial court’s conclusions of law are supported by its findings of fact, and (3) whether the findings of fact are supported by a sufficiency of the evidence. If the appellate court makes these three determinations in the affirmative, it must uphold the trial court’s decision to impose or deny the imposition of mandatory sanctions under N.C. [Gen. Stat.] § 1A-1, Rule 11(a).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the filing of inappropriate affidavits in support of, or in opposition to, motions for summary judgment should be considered under Rule 56(g), rather than Rule 11.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.