78 N.C. App. 350 - Chastain v. Wall’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 101 N.C. App. 450 - Spartan Leasing Inc. v. Pollard (1991), 165 N.C. App. 737 - RD&J Properties v. Lauralea-Dilton Enterprises, LLC (2004)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 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 Marshall v. Miller · Johnson v. Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance · Hardy v. Toler · 34 N.C. App. 503 - Love v. Pressley · Levitch v. Levitch
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even a truthful statement can be deceptive, if it has the capacity or tendency to deceive.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“possess[ ] the tendency or capacity to mislead, or create[ ] the likelihood of deception.”
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.