36 N.C. App. 389 - Craig v. Kessing’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2017
6 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 United States v. Bethlehem Steel Corp. · Neal v. Marrone · Lane v. Coe · 20 N.C. App. 11 - Mezzanotte v. Freeland · Lawing v. Jaynes
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All contracts to sell or convey any lands, tenements or hereditaments, or any interest in or concerning them ... and all other leases and contracts for leasing lands exceeding in duration three years from the making thereof, shall be void unless said contract, or some memorandum or note thereof, be put in writing and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or by some other person by him thereto lawfully authorized.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“statute of frauds ... is applicable to option contracts for the purchase of property[.]”
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.