177 N.C. App. 642 - Diehl v. Diehl’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
33
cited by 33 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
33 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Coble v. Coble · Pulliam v. Smith · Taylor v. Taylor · 10 N.C. App. 545 - In Re Custody of Stancil · Hudson v. Hudson
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“refer[s] generally to the right and responsibility to make decisions with important and long-term implications for a child's best interest and welfare.”
8 later decisions 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.