126 N.C. App. 69 - Edwards v. Hardy’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
September 2008
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Worthington v. Bynum · 88 N.C. App. 484 - Blow v. Shaughnessy · Cates v. Wilson · 103 N.C. App. 31 - Hines v. Arnold · 87 N.C. App. 591 - Garrison v. Garrison
Most-quoted passages
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“[a] discretionary ruling by the trial judge should not be disturbed on appeal unless the appellate court is convinced by the cold record that the ruling probably amounted to a substantial miscarriage of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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