195 N.C. App. 588 - Drake v. Hance’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2025
15 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 151 N.C. App. 704 - Thompson v. First Citizens Bank & Trust Co. · 64 N.C. App. 153 - Cleland v. Children's Home, Inc. · 32 N.C. App. 55 - Durham v. Creech · 69 N.C. App. 664 - Hall v. Hotel L'Europe, Inc. · 18 N.C. App. 500 - Parker v. Pittman
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The parol evidence rule is not a rule of evidence but of substantive law.... It prohibits the consideration of evidence as to anything which happened prior to or simultaneously with the making of a contract which would vary the terms of the agreement. Generally, the parol evidence rule prohibits the admission of evidence to contradict or add to the terms of a clear and unambiguous contract. Thus, it is assumed the [parties] signed the instrument they intended to sign[,] ... [and, absent] evidence or proof of mental incapacity, mutual mistake of the parties, undue influence, or fraud[,] ... the court [does] not err in refusing to allow parol evidence[.]"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[t]he parol evidence rule prohibits the admission of parol evidence to vary, add to, or contradict' the terms of an integrated written agreement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the evidence is strong, cogent, and convincing that the deed, as recorded, did not reflect the agreement between the parties due to a mutual mistake caused by a drafting error, a deed can be reformed.”
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.