Lee v. . Rhodes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

36 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “("consent of the parties must still subsist at the time the court is called upon to exercise its jurisdiction and sign the consent judgment”); Lee v. Rhodes, 227 N.C. 240 , 41 S.E.2d 747 (same); Jacobs v. Steinbrink, 242 App.Div. 197 , 273 N.Y.S. 498 (1934) (consent may be withdrawn at any time prior to entry of judgment).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Blessen H.

2. “Ordinarily when a court renders a judgment and there is some memorandum or minute in the records of the court which discloses what the judgment was, it will be held sufficient and a formal judgment based thereon may be entered nunc pro tunc at a succeeding term.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 49 N.C. App. 94 - Redfern v. Redfern

3. “The power of the court to sign a consent judgment depends upon the unqualified consent of the parties thereto; and the judgment is void if such consent does not exist at the time the court sanctions or approves the agreement and promulgates it as a judgment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 118 N.C. App. 138 - Brundage v. Foye