104 N.C. App. 753 - Guy v. Guy’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 200 N.C. App. 162 - Carcano v. JBSS, LLC (2009), 195 N.C. App. 588 - Drake v. Hance (2009)
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
Relies on Sutton v. Duke · 85 N.C. App. 669 - Harris v. NCNB National Bank of North Carolina · Wilson v. Crab Orchard Development Company · Fulp v. Fulp · Bost v. Riley
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Trusts created by oral declarations, in both land and personalty, are permitted where there are three parties: a grant- or, a grantee, and a beneficiary. In this three party situation, the beneficiary is not a party to the written deed and therefore may introduce evidence of the intended trust and this oral evidence does not violate the Parole Evidence Rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burns v. Creech“An equitable lien is applied where one party wrongfully spends another's funds to improve his own land or when one party expends his own funds to improve land which another has orally agreed to convey to him, but later refuses to do so. It is the unjust enrichment of the title holder which supports the imposition of an equitable lien.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In RE McCORMICK“plaintiff must allege a false promise by the grantee made prior to the legal conveyance which caused the plaintiff-grantor to convey the land.”
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.