Dunn v. Dunn’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““. . . ordinarily equity will not reform a purely voluntary conveyance, the general rule with us being that equity will not assume jurisdiction to reform a deed unless it be shown that the transaction was based on a valuable or meritorious consideration. This rule is based on the proposition that in respect to a voluntary conveyance the grantee has no claim on the grantor, and that any mistake or defect is a mere failure in a bounty which the grantor was not bound to make and hence is not required to perfect. Thus, a volunteer must take the gift as he finds it. In short, one who accepts another’s bounty ordinarily will not be heard to say something else should have been given.” [Citations omitted.] 87 S.E.2d at 311 .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Filip v. Bogdan · Zabolotny v. Fedorenko

2. “are not alleged. In paragraph 7, defendants alleged the cause of action, if any, of plaintiffs or their predecessors in title, “by virtue of a trespass,” accrued more than three years prior to the commencement of this action, and pleaded G.S. 1-52. Obviously, the complaint does not purport to allege a cause of action for trespass. Facts constituting a basis for this plea are not alleged. “A plea of the statute of limitations, although perfect in form, is demurrable where the plea is irrelevant and constitutes no defense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Williams v. North Carolina State Board of Education