149 N.C. App. 660 - Despathy v. Despathy’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 81 N.C. App. 159 - Lawing v. Lawing · Vaughan v. J. P. Taylor Co. · 11 N.C. App. 57 - Crowder v. Jenkins · 119 N.C. App. 155 - Buie v. High Point Associates Ltd. Partnership · Bunch v. N.C. Code Officials Qualifications Board
Most-quoted passages
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“[i]f a conference is held, the judge may make an order which recites the action taken at the conference, the amendments allowed to the pleadings, and the agreements made by the par ties as to any of the matters considered, and which limits the issues for trial to those not disposed of by admissions or agreements of counsel; and such order when entered controls the subsequent course of the action, unless modified at the trial to prevent manifest injustice. . ..”
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.