96 N.C. App. 343 - Nye v. Oates’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably 129 N.C. App. 432 - State Ex Rel. Long v. Petree Stockton, L.L.P. (1998), 149 N.C. App. 38 - Neugent v. Beroth Oil Co. (2002)
23 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 Smith v. Ford Motor Co. · Reid v. Holden · 85 N.C. App. 292 - Fox v. Wilson · Shope v. Boyer · 40 N.C. App. 120 - Nytco Leasing, Inc. v. Southeastern Motels, 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]ur law ... permits one defrauded to recover from anyone who facilitated the fraud by agreeing for it to be accomplished. " (emphasis added)). In this case, the plaintiff's complaint alleges that the defendants "assisted, ... facilitated, aided and abetted”
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.