244 N.C. App. 555 - Cushman v. Cushman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Our Supreme Court has long held that where a theory argued on appeal was not raised before the trial court, the law does not permit parties to swap horses between courts in order to get a better mount in the appellate courts.... The defendant may not change his position from that taken at trial to obtain a steadier mount on appeal."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 248 N.C. App. 173 - Hoover v. Hoover · 257 N.C. App. 436 - Kabasan v. Kabasan

2. “[t]he requirements that the trial court (1) classify and value all property of the parties, both separate and marital, (2) consider the separate property in making a distribution of the marital property , and (3) distribute the marital property, necessarily exist only when evidence is presented to the trial court which supports the claimed classification, valuation and distribution.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Crowell v. Crowell

3. “It is undisputed that '[t]he standard of review on appeal from a judgment entered after a non-jury trial is whether there is competent evidence to support the trial court's findings of fact and whether the findings support the conclusions of law and ensuing judgment.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 257 N.C. App. 436 - Kabasan v. Kabasan