78 N.C. App. 358 - Martin v. Hare’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 137 N.C. App. 387 - Walker v. Sloan (2000), 149 N.C. App. 777 - Harrold v. Dowd (2002)
60 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 State v. Oliver · Bryant v. Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance · Roberts v. William N. & Kate B. Reynolds Mem. Park · Smith v. McRary · Roberts v. Pilot Freight Carriers, Inc.
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Reasons justifying denial of an amendment are (a) undue delay, (b) bad faith, (c) undue prejudice, (d) futility of amendment, and (e) repeated failure to cure defects by previous amendments.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“A motion to amend is addressed to the discretion of the trial court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A loss of use recovery is generally allowed as to pleasure vehicles as well as business vehicles. Even though loss of use is allowed for pleasure vehicles, some courts have denied recovery unless an actual substitute is obtained. We decline to hold that plaintiffs must actually rent a substitute to recover for loss of use of a pleasure vehicle.”
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.