Chappell v. Roth’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably May v. Anderson (2005), 163 N.C. App. 350 - Ales v. T. A. Loving Co. (2004)
2 federal appellate · 67 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 Creech v. Melnik · Boyce v. McMahan · Normile v. Miller · Rowe v. Rowe · 86 N.C. App. 506 - Millis Construction Co. v. Fairfield Sapphire Valley, Inc.
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For an agreement to constitute a valid contract, the parties' minds must meet as to all the terms.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“release was part of the consideration, and hence, material to the settlement agreement. The parties failed to agree as to the terms of the release, and the settlement agreement did not establish a method by which to settle the terms of the release. Thus, no meeting of the minds occurred between the parties as to a material term; and the settlement agreement did not constitute a valid, enforceable contract. Id. at 693 , 548 S.E.2d at 500 . That is, in Chappell, the parties agreed to a vague descriptive term (a”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Settlement of claims is favored in the law and mediated settlement as a means to resolve disputes should be encouraged and afforded great deference. Nevertheless, given the consensual nature of any settlement, a court cannot compel compliance with terms not agreed upon or expressed by the parties in the settlement agreement.”
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.