42 N.C. App. 32 - Cox v. Funk’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably 84 N.C. App. 27 - Chemical Realty Corp. v. Home Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n of Hollywood (1987), 167 N.C. App. 594 - Mosely v. WAM, INC. (2004)
24 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 Price v. Horn · 30 N.C. App. 10 - Price v. Horn · 35 N.C. App. 385 - Parrish Tire Co. v. Morefield · Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond v. Neuse Manufacturing Co. · Reeves v. Jurney
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]onditions precedent are not favored by the law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In entering into a contract, the parties may agree to any condition precedent, the performance of which is mandatory before they become bound by the contract. . . . The contract “may be conditioned upon the act or will of a third person.” . . . Conditions precedent are not favored by the law and a provision will not be construed as such in the absence of language clearly requiring such construction. [Citations omitted.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A condition precedent is a fact or event, occurring subsequently to the making of a valid contract, that must exist or occur before there is a right to immediate performance, before there is a breach of contract duty....”
2 later decisions 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.