7 N.C. App. 451 - Marrone v. Helms’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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

1. “Restrictive covenants cannot be established except by a[n] instrument of record containing adequate words so unequivocally evincing the party's intention to limit the free use of the land that its ascertainment is not dependent on inference, implication or doubtful construction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 254 N.C. App. 384 - Friends of Crooked Creek, L. L.C. v. C.C. Partners, Inc.

2. “to examine all recorded `out' conveyances made by prior record title holders during the periods when they respectively held title to the property, to determine if any such owner had expressly imposed a restriction upon the use of the property.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 198 N.C. App. 703 - Irwin v. Sutton

3. “'The courts are not inclined to put restrictions in deeds where the parties left them out.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 254 N.C. App. 384 - Friends of Crooked Creek, L. L.C. v. C.C. Partners, Inc.