57 N.C. App. 249 - Tallent v. Blake’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 114 N.C. App. 524 - Donovan v. Fiumara (1994), 117 N.C. App. 274 - Phillips v. Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Board of Education (1994)
46 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 Dickinson v. Pake · Bryan Builders Supply v. Midyette · Weil v. . Herring · Feibus & Co., Inc. v. Godley Const. Co., Inc. · Badame v. Lampke
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The] plaintiffs case was tried solely on the theory of slander; no issue as to libel was submitted. . . . The theory upon which the case was tried must prevail in considering the appeal, [and] interpreting the record[.] ... This case was tried on the theory of slander, and plaintiff has not appealed or assigned as error the trial judge’s failure to submit an issue as to libel. Therefore, plaintiff may not argue the law of libel on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“alleged false statements made by defendants, calling plaintiff 'dishonest' or charging that plaintiff was untruthful and an unreliable employee, are not actionable per se.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Yates v. Brown“[D]efamation includes two distinct torts, libel and slander.”
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.