53 N.C. App. 161 - Carawan v. Tate’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Medlin v. Bass (1990), 149 N.C. App. 672 - Rhyne v. K-Mart Corp. (2002)
3 federal appellate · 28 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 33 N.C. App. 15 - Reliance Insurance v. Walker · Robertson Ex Rel. Robertson v. Stanley · Tidwell v. Booker · Allred v. Graves · RELIANCE INSURANCE COMPANY v. Walker
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`excessively disproportionate to the circumstances of contumely and indignity present in the case.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“about his master's business or whether he stepped aside from his employment to commit a wrong prompted by a spirit of vindictiveness or to gratify his personal animosity or to carry out an independent purpose of his own,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“there is a substantial likelihood that the two issues [compensatory and punitive damages] were so intertwined in the minds of the jurors that it would result in an injustice to remand this case for a new trial on one issue only”
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.