148 N.C. App. 199 - Johnson v. Pearce’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
2
states following
January 2018
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In Re the Appeal From the Civil Penalty · Cannon v. Miller · State v. Freeman · 124 N.C. App. 377 - Brown v. Hurley · 121 N.C. App. 728 - Rogerson v. Fitzpatrick
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Until the legislature or Supreme Court acts to modify the tort of criminal conversation, we are bound by decisions of our Supreme Court and prior panels of this Court recognizing that the mere fact of separation does not bar a claim for criminal conversation occurring during the separation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The elements of the tort are the actual marriage between the spouses and sexual intercourse between defendant and the plaintiff's spouse during the coverture.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Only our General Assembly and Supreme Court have the authority to abrogate or modify a common law tort.”
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.