Roberson v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

44 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““In Gray v. Jenkins, 151 N.C. 80 , 65 S.E. 644 , this Court said: ‘The law does not require a prudent man to deal with everyone as a rascal and demand covenants to guard against the falsehood of every representation which may be made as to facts which constitute material inducements to a contract; that there must be a reliance on the integrity of man or else trade and commerce could not prosper.’ ” Roberson v. Williams, 240 N.C. 696 , 83 S.E. 2d 811 .”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 41 N.C. App. 54 - Johnson v. Lockman · 81 N.C. App. 228 - Northwestern Bank v. Roseman

2. “Ordinarily, when parties are on equal footing, competent to contract, enter into an agreement on a lawful subject, and do so fairly and honorably, the law does not permit inquiry as to whether the contract was good or bad, whether it was wise or foolish.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re the Foreclosure of the Deed of Trust Executed by Bonder · Crockett v. FIRST FEDERAL S. & L. ASS'N, ETC.

3. ““Fraud has no all-embracing definition. Because of the multifarious means by which human ingenuity is able to devise means to gain advantages by false suggestions and concealment of the truth, and in order that each case may be determined on its own facts, it has been wisely stated ‘that fraud is better left undefined,’ lest, . . . ‘the craft of men should find a way of committing fraud which might escape a rule or definition.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Terry v. Terry