68 N.C. App. 320 - Lee v. Keck’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably 138 N.C. App. 19 - Poor v. Hill (2000), 145 N.C. App. 525 - Lake Mary Ltd. Partnership v. Johnston (2001)
40 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. Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance · Hardy v. Toler · North Carolina National Bank v. Burnette · Norburn v. MacKie · Anderson Ex Rel. Anderson v. Butler
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule is that a principal is responsible to third parties for injuries resulting from the fraud of his [or her] agent committed during the existence of the agency and within the scope of the agent's actual or apparent authority from the principal, even though the principal did not know or authorize the commission of the fraudulent acts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Even the sufficiency of the evidence cannot be raised for the first time on appeal. On appeal, defendants argue several grounds, including the sufficiency of the evidence, which were not advanced at trial. They are, therefore, not properly before this Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rulings on motions to amend after the expiration of the statutory period are within the discretion of the trial court[.]”
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.