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← 94 N.C. App. 149 - Gordon v. Howard

94 N.C. App. 149 - Gordon v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
July 2019
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Williams v. Pilot Life Insurance Company · 93 N.C. App. 439 - Messer v. Laurel Hill Associates · Edwards v. . Proctor

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

  1. “in order to constitute anticipatory repudiation, the words or conduct evidencing an intention to breach the contract must be a `positive, distinct, unequivocal, and absolute refusal' to perform the contract when the time fixed for performance arrives.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[m]y purpose in writing is to tell you that my wife and I have decided not to purchase lot number 22 in Glenn Kerry ... therefore, kindly return my $10,000 deposit.”
    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.