89 N.C. App. 663 - Jones v. Swain’s Empirical Analysis

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8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(a) Any tenant or lessee of any house or land, and the assigns under the tenant or legal representatives of such tenant or lessee, who holds over and continues in the possession of the demised premises, or any part thereof, without the permission of the landlord, and after demand made for its surrender, may be removed from such premises in the manner hereinafter prescribed in any of the following cases: * * * (2) When the tenant or lessee, or other person under him, has done or omitted any act by which, according to the stipulations of the lease, his estate has ceased.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 200 N.C. App. 618 - Worship Ventures of Arks, LLC v. Judd Ministries, Inc. · College Heights Credit Union v. Boyd

2. “under this statute it is no longer necessary to allege that a landlord-tenant relationship exists between the parties as a jurisdictional matter, but it is still necessary to show that the relationship exists in order to bring the case, within the provisions of this section before the summary ejectment remedy may be properly granted. (Citation omitted).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. College Heights Credit Union v. Boyd

3. “to a case in which the tenant entered into possession under some contract or lease, either actual or implied, with the supposed landlord, or with some person under whom the landlord claimed in privity, or where the tenant himself is in privity with some person who had so entered.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 200 N.C. App. 618 - Worship Ventures of Arks, LLC v. Judd Ministries, Inc.