Henry v. Henry’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 state decisions

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.

1. ““Under the provisions of G. S. 1947 Supp., 60-1511, when a husband is granted a divorce by reason of the fault or aggression of the wife, the division of property to be made between the parties, irrespective whether such property has been jointly acquired or is the separate property of the husband, is a matter which rests in the sound judicial discretion of the trial court. “A division of property made by a trial court in a divorce proceeding will not be disturbed on appellate review unless it appears the pertinent statute has been disregarded or clearly shown the trial court’s action in making such division is so unjust and unreasonable as to constitute an abuse of discretion.” (Syl. H 1 and 2.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Berndt v. Berndt

2. ““Under the provisions of G. S. 1949, 60-1511, when a husband is granted a divorce by reason of the fault or aggression of the wife, the division of property to be made between the parties, irrespective whether such property has been jointly acquired or is the separate property of the husband, is a matter which rests in the sound judicial discretion of the trial court. “A division of property made by the trial court in a divorce action will not be disturbed unless it is clearly shown that there was an abuse of discretion.” (Syl. ¶|1, 2.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Perry v. Perry