134 N.C. App. 573 - Dobson v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 state decisions

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.

1. “'Conduct is extreme and outrageous when it is so outrageous in character, and so extreme in degree, as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency, and to be regarded as atrocious, and utterly intolerable in a civilized community.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 245 N.C. App. 412 - Piro v. McKeever · 250 N.C. App. 392 - Norton v. Scot. Mem'l Hosp., Inc.

2. “Assuming arguendo that defendant [employee] exaggerated or fabricated the events she reported to DSS, the report served only to initiate an investigatory process. Although falsely reporting child abuse wastes the limited resources available to DSS and subjects the reported parent to questioning and investigation, in light of this Court’s precedent, we cannot say that such actions constitute “extreme and outrageous conduct” which is “utterly intolerable in a civilized community.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Turner v. Special Agent Thomas

3. “any emotional or mental disorder, such as, for example, neurosis, psychosis, chronic depression, phobia, or any other type of severe and disabling emotional or mental condition which may be generally recognized and diagnosed by professionals trained to do so, ... mere temporary fright, disappointment or regret will not suffice.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 179 F. Supp. 2d 615 - Delk v. ArvinMeritor, Inc.