169 N.C. App. 483 - Wolfe v. Villines’s Empirical Analysis

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13 state decisions

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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A latently ambiguous description requires admission of extrinsic evidence to explain or refute the identification of the land in question, and thus creates a potential issue of material fact which must be determined before the trial court can conclude as a matter of law that the statute of frauds has been met.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 203 N.C. App. 149 - Nesbit v. Cribbs

2. “Our Supreme Court stated in Steingress v. Steingress that `Rule 2 relates to the residual power of our appellate courts to consider, in exceptional circumstances, significant issues of importance in the public interest, or to prevent injustice which appears manifest to the Court and only in such instances. '”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 171 N.C. App. 187 - Youse v. Duke Energy Corp.

3. “[w]hat is a “reasonable time” in which delivery must be made is generally a mixed question of law and fact, and, therefore, for the jury, but when the facts are simple and admitted, and only one inference can be drawn, it is a question of law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 180 N.C. App. 202 - Litvak v. Smith