55 N.C. App. 86 - Flexolite Electrical, Ltd. v. Gilliam’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably 189 N.C. App. 755 - Carpenter v. Carpenter (2008), 144 N.C. App. 79 - Groves v. Community Housing Corp. of Haywood County (2001)
27 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 Wilson v. Crab Orchard Development Company · 31 N.C. App. 463 - Huss v. Huss · City of Reidsville v. Burton · 47 N.C. App. 261 - Silver v. North Carolina Board of Transportation · Solon Lodge No. 9 Knights of Pythias Co. v. Ionic Lodge Free Ancient & Accepted, Masons No. 72 Co.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'all the facts necessary to establish the limitation [were not] alleged or admitted. '”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Judgments on the pleadings are disfavored in law, and the trial court must view the facts and permissible inferences in the light most favorable to the non-moving party.”
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.