158 N.C. App. 533 - Evans v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis

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8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In general, “there is no right to immediate appeal from an interlocutory order.” “This rule is grounded in sound policy considerations. Its goal is to ‘prevent fragmentary and premature appeals that unnecessarily delay the administration of justice and to ensure that the trial divisions fully and finally dispose of the case before an appeal can be heard.’ ” However, there are two significant exceptions to this rule. First, an interlocutory order is immediately appealable “when the trial court enters ‘a final judgment as to one or more but fewer than all of the claims or parties’ and the trial court certifies in the judgment that there is no just rea- ’ son to delay the appeal.” Secondly, an interlocutory order may be immediately appealed if “the order deprives the appellant of a substantial right which would be jeopardized absent a review prior to a final determination on the merits.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 169 N.C. App. 451 - Arnold v. City of Asheville