70 N.C. App. 299 - Barnaby v. Boardman’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 147 N.C. App. 52 - Oberlin Capital, L.P. v. Slavin (2001), 129 N.C. App. 432 - State Ex Rel. Long v. Petree Stockton, L.L.P. (1998)
51 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 Sutton v. Duke · Newton v. Standard Fire Insurance · Ross Realty Co. v. First Citizens Bank & Trust Co. · 28 N.C. App. 91 - Benton v. W. H. Weaver Construction 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the complaint, when liberally construed, states a claim upon which relief can be granted on any theory.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“Under the “notice theory of pleading,” a statement of a claim can withstand a motion to dismiss if it gives the other party notice of the nature and basis of the claim sufficient to enable the party to answer and prepare for trial. ... A claim for relief should not be dismissed unless it appears beyond doubt that the party is entitled to no relief under any state of facts which could be presented in support of the claim. . . . Therefore, the essential question on a Rule 12(b)(6) motion, is whether the complaint, when liberally construed, states a claim upon which relief can be granted on any theory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“under any state of facts which could be presented in support of the claim.”
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.