96 N.C. App. 359 - Adams v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 140 N.C. App. 390 - Norman v. Nash Johnson & Sons' Farms, Inc. (2000), 152 N.C. App. 240 - Governor's Club, Inc. v. Governors Club Ltd. Partnership (2002)
42 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 Sutton v. Duke · Terry v. Terry · Abbitt v. . Gregory · 88 N.C. App. 437 - Robertson v. Boyd · Watts v. Cumberland County Hospital System, 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]njust enrichment is a legal term characterizing the result or effect of a failure to make restitution of, or for, property or benefits received under such circumstances as to give rise to a legal or equitable obligation to. account therefor. It is a general principle, underlying various legal doctrines and remedies, that one person should not be permitted unjustly to enrich himself [or herself] at the expense of another. . . [.]”
4 later decisions 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.