52 N.C. App. 428 - Loy v. Lorm Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably 140 N.C. App. 390 - Norman v. Nash Johnson & Sons' Farms, Inc. (2000), 110 N.C. App. 28 - Freese v. Smith (1993)
3 federal appellate · 75 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 Kelly v. International Harvester Company · Caldwell v. Deese · Page v. Sloan · Cutts v. Casey · Summey v. Cauthen
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he judgment sought shall be rendered forthwith if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that any party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘[t]he devolution of unlimited power imposes on holders of the majority of the stock a correlative duty, the duty of a fiduciary or agent, to the holders of the minority of the stock, who can act only through them — the duty to exercise good faith, care, and diligence . . . [and] to protect the interests of the holders of the minority of the stock[.]’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Directors owe a duty of fidelity and due care in the management of a corporation and must exercise their authority solely for the benefit of the corporation and all its shareholders.”
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.