57 N.C. App. 346 - Dailey v. Integon General Ins. Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2012
18 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 Stanback v. Stanback · Oestreicher v. American National Stores, Inc. · Newton v. Standard Fire Insurance · Shugar v. Guill · King v. Insurance Company of North America
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Generally,] punitive damages are not recoverable for breach of contract with the exception of breach of contract to marry. But when the breach of contract also constitutes or is accompanied by an identifiable tortious act, the tort committed may be grounds for recovery of punitive damages. [However], allegations of an identifiable tort accompanying the breach are insufficient alone to support a claim for punitive damages. . . . Even where sufficient facts are alleged to make out an identifiable tort, . . . the tortious conduct must be accompanied by or partake of some element of aggravation before punitive damages will be allowed.”
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.