216 N.C. App. 28 - Romulus v. Romulus’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “An appeal is not 'perfected' until it is docketed in the appellate court, but when it is docketed, the perfection relates back to the time of notice of appeal, so any proceedings in the trial court after the notice of appeal are void for lack of jurisdiction.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 261 N.C. App. 157 - Henson v. Henson · 261 N.C. App. 387 - Quevedo-Woolf v. Overholser

2. “[w]hen an appeal is perfected ... it stays all further proceedings in the court below upon the judgment appealed from, or upon the matter embraced therein....”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 261 N.C. App. 387 - Quevedo-Woolf v. Overholser · 247 N.C. App. 166 - Smith v. Smith

3. “in construing statutes [,] courts normally adopt an interpretation which will avoid absurd or bizarre consequences, the presumption being that the legislature acted in accordance with reason and common sense and did not intend untoward results. Accordingly, an unnecessary implication arising from one statutory section, inconsistent with the express terms of another on the same subject, yields to the expressed intent.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 234 N.C. App. 129 - Henderson v. Henderson