147 N.C. App. 520 - RAINBOW PROPERTIES v. Wilkinson’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
July 2010
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Texaco, Inc. v. Creel · Byrd v. Freeman · Watts v. Kellar · 126 N.C. App. 278 - Starling v. Still · 64 N.C. App. 520 - Langley v. Moore
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]pecific performance is a proper remedy for enforcement of [a contract] to purchase real estate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n option to buy or sell land, more than any other form of contract, contemplates a specific performance of its terms; and it is the right to have them specifically enforced that imparts to them their usefulness and value.”
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.