134 N.C. App. 657 - Chance v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2017
20 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 Sink v. Easter · King v. . King · Howard v. Boyce · 74 N.C. App. 554 - McIntosh v. McIntosh · 66 N.C. App. 522 - Mayer v. Mayer
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e hold defendant may not now avoid the terms of the Order which he acknowledged, acquiesced in and attempted to modify and enforce over a two year period.... Moreover, defendant’s actions also affected plaintiffs rights and obligations under the Order.... Defendant in essence ratified and affirmed the Order and is now estopped from seeking to avoid its effect.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“For a valid consent order, the parties' consent to the terms "must still subsist at the time the court is called upon" to sign the consent judgment. If a party repudiates the agreement by withdrawing consent before entry of the judgment, the trial court is "without power to sign [the] judgment."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“such that defendant was estopped from challenging the judgment. Where a party engages in positive acts that amount to ratification resulting in prejudice to an innocent party, the circumstances may give rise to estoppel. Howard v. Boyce, 254 N.C. 255, 265-66 , 118 S.E.2d 897, 905 (1961). Further,”
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.