101 N.C. App. 566 - Smith v. Jack Eckerd Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably 161 N.C. App. 20 - Broughton v. McClatchy Newspapers, Inc. (2003), People for Ethical Treatment of Animals v. Bobby Berosini Ltd. (1995)
3 federal appellate · 15 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 24 N.C. App. 204 - Whitley v. Cubberly · 49 N.C. App. 311 - Oliver v. Roberts · Shugar v. Guill · Oliver v. Roberts
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One who intentionally intrudes, physically or otherwise, upon the solitude or seclusion of another or his private affairs or concerns, is subject to liability to the other for invasion of his privacy, if the intrusion would be highly offensive to a reasonable person.””
5 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.