181 N.C. App. 688 - Stone v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis

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14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Historically our trial courts have been granted wide discretionary powers concerning domestic law cases. The legislature also clearly intended to vest trial courts with discretion in distributing marital property under N.C.G.S. [§] 50-20[.] ... It is well established that where matters are left to the discretion of the trial court, appellate review is limited to a determination of whether there was a clear abuse of discretion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 189 N.C. App. 65 - Hartsell v. Hartsell

2. “enable an appellate court to review the decision and test the correctness of the judgment. The fact that there is evidence in the record from which sufficient findings could be made does not excuse the error.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Grennan v. Grennan

3. “When the findings and conclusions are inadequate, appellate review is effectively precluded.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Grennan v. Grennan