124 N.C. App. 724 - Raynor v. Odom’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably 141 N.C. App. 475 - In Re Gleisner (2000), 133 N.C. App. 221 - Cox v. Cox (1999)
43 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 Matter of Ballard · Williams v. Pilot Life Insurance Company · Petersen v. Rogers · Food Town Stores, Inc. v. City of Salisbury · Smith v. AMERICAN RADIATOR & STANDARD SANITARY CORPORATION
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to preserve a question for appellate review, a party must have presented to the trial court a timely request, objection or motion, stating the specific grounds for the ruling the party desired the court to make if the specific grounds were not apparent from the context.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[u]nder the [initial custody order] plaintiff was found to be a fit and proper parent; therefore, a finding of unfitness in a subsequent order is a substantial change in circumstances. Furthermore, because the standard for finding unfitness is much higher than the standard for finding a change in circumstances, it would seem absurd for a finding of unfitness to not be considered a change of circumstances....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`[n]o decisions in North Carolina specifically indicate that it is improper for a trial court to use orders from temporary hearings or contempt hearings in the same case to support permanent custody orders.'”
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.