109 N.C. App. 591 - Peake v. Shirley’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 2010
6 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 94 N.C. App. 724 - Gray v. Hoover · 91 N.C. App. 349 - Darnell v. Rupplin · 101 N.C. App. 513 - Shaw v. Stringer
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) plaintiff and [her husband] were happily married and a genuine love and affection existed between them; (2) the love and affection was alienated and destroyed; and (3) the wrongful and malicious acts of defendant produced the alienation of affections.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There must be active participation, initiative or encouragement on the part of the defendant in causing one spouse's loss of the other spouse's affections for liability to arise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“becom[e] the object of the affections that are alienated from a spouse.”
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.