169 N.C. App. 776 - Iadanza v. Harper’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
1 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Dammarell v. Islamic Republic of Iran (2005), 221 N.C. App. 317 - Hardin v. York Memorial Park (2012)
1 district · 25 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 120 N.C. App. 650 - Pleasant Valley Promenade v. Lechmere, Inc. · Westminster Homes, Inc. v. Town of Cary Zoning Board of Adjustment · 152 N.C. App. 15 - Guthrie v. Conroy · 101 N.C. App. 529 - Hawkins v. Hawkins · 114 N.C. App. 524 - Donovan v. Fiumara
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“do not and cannot exist as an independent cause of action, but are mere incidents of the cause of action[.] . . . If the injured party has no cause of action independent of a supposed right to recover punitive damages, then he has no cause of action at all.”
2 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.