188 N.C. App. 527 - Hall v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

29 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"[The trial court] has the opportunity to see the parties in person and to hear the witnesses, and [its] decision ought not be upset on appeal absent a clear showing of abuse of discretion." "[The trial court] can detect tenors, tones, and flavors that are lost in the bare printed record read months later by appellate judges."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Scoggin v. Scoggin · 264 N.C. App. 142 - Conklin v. Conklin

2. “[presuming], arguendo , that those findings of fact were only [recitations], the record [evidence and the order] still contain[ ] findings of fact, not challenged by defendant or already determined to be supported by competent evidence by this Court, to support the trial court's 'best interest' determination.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 257 N.C. App. 408 - Berry v. Berry · 225 N.C. App. 269 - Carpenter v. Carpenter

3. “may concern physical, mental, or financial fitness or any other factors brought out by the evidence and relevant to the issue of the welfare of the child.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 260 N.C. App. 526 - Eddington v. Lamb · Sappington v. Sappington