55 N.C. App. 47 - Isbey v. Crews’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably 40 Cal. 3d 488 - Kendall v. Ernest Pestana, Inc. (1985), Reid v. Mutual of Omaha Insurance Co. (1989)
31 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 City of Thomasville v. Lease-Afex, Inc. · Perkins v. Langdon · Dendy v. Watkins · Branch Banking & Trust Co. v. Creasy · Etheridge v. Peters
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“With respect to the question of mitigation of damages, the law in North Carolina is that the nonbreaching party to a lease contract has a duty to mitigate his damages upon breach of such contract.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the difference between what [it] would have received had the lease agreement been performed, and the fair market value of what he could have received had [it] used reasonable diligence to mitigate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“defendants . . . offered in opposition to the motion for summary judgment no evidence with respect to plaintiffs' failure to exercise reasonable diligence to mitigate their loss”
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.