89 N.C. App. 358 - Deans v. Layton’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 181 N.C. App. 511 - Burgin v. Owen (2007), 134 N.C. App. 116 - Howard v. Oakwood Homes Corp. (1999)
2 district · 20 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 Ragsdale v. Kennedy · Johnson v. Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance · Bernick v. Jurden · Investment Properties of Asheville, Inc. v. Norburn · Long v. City of Charlotte
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In an action for breach of contract, except an action on a penal bond, the amount awarded on the contract bears interest from the date of breach. The fact finder in an action for breach of contract shall distinguish the principal from the interest in the award, and the judgment shall provide that the principal amount bears interest until the judgment is satisfied. Interest on an award in a contract action shall be at the contract rate, if the parties have so provided in the contract; otherwise, it shall be at the legal rate.”
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.