Sood v. Sood’s Empirical Analysis

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8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a] trial court’s label of a custody order as “temporary” is not dispositive. A custody order is, in fact, temporary if either (1) it is entered without prejudice to either party, (2) it states a clear and specific reconvening time in the order and the time interval between the two hearings was reasonably brief; or (3) the order does not determine all the issues.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 235 N.C. App. 597 - Sarno v. Sarno · 257 N.C. App. 417 - Brown v. Swarn

2. “While this provision certainly encourages a judge to recuse [ ] herself in cases where [ ] her 'impartiality may reasonably be questioned' upon [her] own motion, [she is] not required to do so in the absence of a motion by a party.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 241 N.C. App. 655 - In re N.A.F.

3. “[w]here [an] appellant failed to move that the trial judge recuse himself, he cannot later raise on appeal the judge's alleged bias based on an undesired outcome.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 241 N.C. App. 655 - In re N.A.F.