30 N.C. App. 497 - Parsons v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The general rule is that a principal is responsible to third parties for injuries resulting from the fraud of his agent committed during the existence of the agency and within the scope of the agent's actual or apparent authority from the principal, even though the principal did not know or authorize the commission of the fraudulent acts ....”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 255 N.C. App. 696 - Discovery Ins. Co. v. The NC Dep't of Ins. · 47 N.C. App. 98 - Vickery v. OLIN HILL CONST. CO., INC.

2. “It would seem to be clear that if the agent is purporting to act as an agent and doing the things which such agents normally do, and the third person has no reason to know that the agent is acting on his own account, the principal should be liable because he has invited third persons to deal with the agent within the limits of what, to such third persons, would seem to be the agent’s authority. To go beyond this, however, and to permit the third persons to recover in every case where the agent takes advantage of the standing and position of his principal to perpetuate a fraud would seem to be going too far.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Investors Title Insurance v. Herzig

3. “It makes no difference that the agent was acting in his own behalf and not in the interests of the principal when the fraudulent act was perpetrated unless the third parties had notice of that fact.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 255 N.C. App. 696 - Discovery Ins. Co. v. The NC Dep't of Ins.