67 N.C. App. 397 - Chappell v. Redding’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2003
17 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 2515 (Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986)
Relies on 49 N.C. App. 642 - Hunt v. Montgomery Ward and Co., Inc. · 6 N.C. App. 201 - Sebastian v. Kluttz · 46 N.C. App. 521 - Heist v. Heist · Rickenbaker v. Rickenbaker · 59 N.C. App. 458 - Scott v. Kiker
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the increasing amounts of time spent with plaintiff's wife was enough to permit the alienation of affections issue to go to the jury, plaintiff [failed to show] additional circumstances of aggravation to justify the submission of the punitive damages issue”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“evidence of circumstances of aggravation in addition to the malice implied by law from the conduct of defendant in alienating the affections between the spouses which was necessary to sustain a recovery of compensatory damages.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) plaintiff and [her husband] were happily married and a genuine love and affection existed between them; (2) the love and affection was alienated and destroyed; and (3) the wrongful and malicious acts of defendant produced the alienation of affections.”
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.