Sorey v. Sorey’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Matter of Estate of Trogdon · 66 N.C. App. 522 - Mayer v. Mayer · 55 N.C. App. 250 - Stephenson v. Stephenson · 165 N.C. App. 859 - Oakley v. Oakley · 145 N.C. App. 356 - Goodson v. Goodson
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is the trial court's duty to resolve [evidentiary] conflicts and ambiguity in its findings.”
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.