165 N.C. App. 819 - Harman v. Belk’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 85 N.C. App. 669 - Harris v. NCNB National Bank of North Carolina · Manganello v. Permastone, Inc. · Jarman v. Offutt · Scott v. Statesville Plywood & Veneer Co. · 128 N.C. App. 334 - Houpe v. City of Statesville
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In deciding whether a statement is absolutely privileged, a court must determine (1) whether the statement was made in the course of a judicial proceeding; and (2) whether it was sufficiently relevant to that proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] defamatory statement made in due course of a judicial proceeding is absolutely privileged and will not support a civil action for defamation, even though it be made with express malice,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“so palpably irrelevant to the subject matter of the controversy that no reasonable man can doubt its irrelevancy or impropriety,”
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.