41 N.C. App. 54 - Johnson v. Lockman’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 1994
10 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 Johnson v. Owens · Cofield v. Griffin · Setzer v. OLD REPUBLIC LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY · 11 N.C. App. 275 - Robinson v. McMahan · Fox v. Southern Appliances, Inc.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But the law does not require a prudent [person] to deal with everyone as a rascal and demand covenants to guard against the falsehood of every representation which may be made as to facts which constitute material inducements to a contract. There must be a reasonable reliance upon the integrity of [people] or the transactions of business, trade and commerce could not be conducted with that facility and confidence which are essential to successful enterprise and ... prosperity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Just where reliance ceases to be reasonable and becomes such negligence and inattention that it will, as a matter of law, bar recovery for fraud is frequently very difficult to determine.”
1 later decision 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.