78 N.C. App. 758 - Trought v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably 79 N.C. App. 483 - Hogan v. Forsyth Country Club Co. (1986), Coman v. Thomas Manufacturing Co. (1989)
10 federal appellate · 36 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 · Dickens v. Puryear · 74 N.C. App. 331 - Sides v. Duke University · Renwick v. News & Observer Publishing Co. · 77 N.C. App. 253 - Walker v. Westinghouse Electric Corp.
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Extreme and outrageous conduct (2) which is intended to cause and does cause”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“exceeds all bounds usually tolerated by decent society.”
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.