88 N.C. App. 484 - Blow v. Shaughnessy’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Broussard, Future Group, II v. Nationsbank (1996)
3 federal appellate · 64 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 Avis Rent A Car System, Inc. v. City of Chicago · United States v. Mazurie · Worthington v. Bynum · Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 95,351 Billie Jean Woodward v. Metro Bank of Dallas · Metge v. Baehler
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, we recognize that a cause of action for aiding and abetting in breach of fiduciary obligations has heretofore never been addressed by this Court. However, a cause of action on this theory has been recognized by federal courts in securities fraud cases based on violations of section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“For harm resulting to a third person from the tortious conduct of another, one is subject to liability if he knows that the other’s conduct constitutes a breach of duty and gives substantial assistance or encouragement to the other so to conduct himself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““if the charge when considered as a whole presents the law of the case to the jury in such manner as to leave no reasonable cause to believe that the jury was misled or misinformed [,]””
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.