148 N.C. App. 713 - Steadman v. Steadman’s Empirical Analysis

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9 state decisions

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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. “It is well settled that a judgment which determines liability but which leaves unresolved the amount of damages is interlocutory and cannot affect a substantial right: [i]f ... [such a] partial ... judgment is in error defendant can preserve its right to complain of the error on appeal from the final judgment by a duly entered exception. Even if defendant is correct on its legal position, the most it will suffer from being denied an immediate appeal is a trial on the issue of damages.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 258 N.C. App. 402 - Engility Corp. v. Nell

2. “this Court is constrained to conclude that the appeal was taken for an improper purpose so as to cause unnecessary delay and needless increase in the cost of this litigation”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 158 N.C. App. 637 - Alexander v. DaimlerChrysler Corp.