97 N.C. App. 372 - Hunter v. Spaulding’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably 176 N.C. App. 33 - Bob Timberlake Collection, Inc. v. Edwards (2006), 155 N.C. App. 161 - Blankenship v. Town and Country Ford, Inc. (2002)
28 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 Hickman v. Taylor · Terry v. Terry · Nishimatsu Construction Co. v. Houston National Bank · Willis v. Duke Power Co. · 37 N.C. App. 121 - American Imports, Inc. v. G. E. Employees Western Region Federal Credit Union
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] default judgment admits only the allegations contained within the complaint, and a defendant may still show that the complaint is insufficient to warrant [the] plaintiff's recovery.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the complaint avers the necessary elements of fraud with sufficient particularity to have allowed default judgment to be entered for the [plaintiffs.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“defaulting him on the [plaintiffs'] fraud claim was improper in that the [plaintiffs'] complaint for fraud was deficient.”
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.