152 N.C. App. 650 - Goodwin v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Caldwell v. Deese · Koontz v. City of Winston-Salem · 130 N.C. App. 729 - Bruce-Terminix Company v. Zurich Ins. Co. · Link v. Link · First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Branch Banking & Trust Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] party ratifies an agreement by retroactively authorizing or otherwise approving it, either expressly or by implication. Thus, ratification can occur where a party accepts benefits and performs under an agreement. The act only constitutes ratification if it is done with full knowledge that the acceptance of benefits or the performance arises pursuant to the agreement and is done so without any duress.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“physical and mental abuse . . . during her 25-year marriage [which] left her unable to contest the provisions of the Agreement even had been signed, as she was fearful of repercussions from [the husband] if she contested the Agreement, even • during the time that he was sick and in the hospital and up until the time of his death.”
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.