233 N.C. App. 38 - Spoon v. Spoon’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Williams · Shipman v. Shipman · National Metal Finishing Co. v. Barclaysamerican/Commercial, Inc. · 40 N.C. App. 227 - O'Neill v. Southern National Bank · Spence v. Durham
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our review of a trial court's decision to modify an existing child custody order is limited to determining (1) whether the trial court's findings of fact are supported by substantial evidence; and (2) whether those findings of fact support its conclusions of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.