215 N.C. App. 495 - Romulus v. Romulus’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

30 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[W]hen the trial court sits without a jury, the standard of review on appeal is whether there was competent evidence to support the trial court's findings of fact and whether its conclusions of law were proper in light of such facts.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 246 N.C. App. 544 - Malone v. Hutchinson-Malone · Tyll v. Willets

2. “[w]hen the trial court sits without a jury, the standard of review on appeal is whether there was competent evidence to support the trial court's findings of fact and whether its conclusions of law were proper in light of such facts. While findings of fact by the trial court in a non-jury case are conclusive on appeal if there is evidence to support those findings, conclusions of law are reviewable de novo. We review the trial court's distribution of property for an abuse of discretion.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 241 N.C. App. 487 - Nicks v. Nicks · 249 N.C. App. 1 - Burger v. Burger

3. “a legal error that is not a cause for complaint because the error occurred through the fault of the party now complaining. The evidentiary scholars have provided similar definitions; e.g., the party who induces an error can't take advantage of it on appeal, or more colloquially, you can't complain about a result you caused.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 265 N.C. App. 113 - Clemons v. Clemons · 222 N.C. App. 784 - Peltzer v. Peltzer