86 N.C. App. 607 - MCB LTD. v. McGowan’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably White Sands Group, LLC v. PRS II, LLC (2008), 138 N.C. App. 582 - Miller v. Rose (2000)
42 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 Sutton v. Duke · Kidd v. Early · 7 Cal. 3d 603 - Spangler v. Memel · Boyce v. McMahan · 65 Cal. 2d 578 - Handy v. Gordon
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One of the essential elements of every contract is mutuality] of agreement. There must be neither doubt nor difference between the parties. They must assent to the same thing in the same sense, and their minds must meet as to all the terms. If any portion of the proposed terms is not settled, or no mode agreed on by which they may be settled, there is no agreement.” ... A contract, and by implication[,] a provision, “leaving material portions open for future agreement is nugatory and void for indefiniteness.” . . . Consequently, any contract provision . . . failing to specify either directly or by implication a material term is invalid as a matter of law.”
3 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.