73 N.C. App. 672 - Briggs v. Rosenthal’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably 85 N.C. App. 669 - Harris v. NCNB National Bank of North Carolina (1987), 113 N.C. App. 579 - Wagoner v. Elkin City Schools' Board of Education (1994)
4 federal appellate · 59 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 Sutton v. Duke · Stanback v. Stanback · Dickens v. Puryear · Harris v. Henry's Auto Parts · 57 N.C. App. 13 - Morrow v. Kings Department Stores, 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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so outrageous in character, and so extreme in degree, as to go beyond all possible bounds of decency, and to be regarded as atrocious, and utterly intolerable in a civilized community.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he initial determination of whether conduct is extreme and outrageous is a question of law for the court: 'If the court determines that it may reasonably be so regarded, then it is for the jury to decide whether, under the facts of a particular case, defendants' conduct ... was in fact extreme and outrageous.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) Extreme and outrageous conduct, (2) which is intended to cause and does cause (3) severe emotional distress to another. The tort may also exist where defendant's actions indicate a reckless indifference to the likelihood that they will cause severe emotional distress.”
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.