155 N.C. App. 603 - Freeman v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
November 2015
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sink v. Easter · Edwards v. West · 130 N.C. App. 657 - Fender v. Deaton · 128 N.C. App. 461 - Upchurch v. Upchurch · 151 N.C. App. 683 - Van Engen v. Que Scientific, Inc.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where acceptance of service is used, there is a rebuttable presumption that service was proper if the return of process bears the defendant’s signature and is dated. In order to overcome this presumption, a defendant must produce clear, unequivocal, and convincing evidence of the alleged defect. If supported by such evidence, the findings of the trial court are binding on this Court, although the conclusions of law may be reviewed de novo.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The weight, credibility, and convincing force of such evidence is for the trial court, who is in the best position to observe the witnesses and make such determinations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“of the length of the parties' separation in the divorce complaint and related inaccurate findings in the judgment”
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.