79 N.C. App. 458 - Ward v. Turcotte’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2010
8 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 Hazeltine Corp. v. RCA Corp. · Stewart v. Nation-Wide Check Corporation · Ponder v. Cobb · American National Insurance Company v. Ingram · 73 N.C. App. 182 - Ipock v. Gilmore
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Summary judgment should be granted when a party establishes that there is no genuine issue of material fact and that it is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1A-1, Rule 56 of the Rules of Civil Procedure; Ipock v. Gilmore, 73 N.C. App. 182 , 326 S.E.2d 271 , disc. rev. denied, 314 N.C. 116 , 332 S.E.2d 481 (1985).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]n defamation actions, actual malice 'may be proven by a showing that the defamatory statement was made in bad faith, without probable cause or without checking for truth by the means at hand.’”
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.