250 N.C. App. 476 - Williams v. Chaney’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Dogwood Development & Management Co. LLC v. White Oak Transport Co. · Mauney v. Mauney · Clark v. Clark · Bowman v. Comfort Chair Company · 137 N.C. App. 98 - Blevins v. Welch
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, if the prior order is ambiguous such that a defendant could not understand his respective rights and obligations under that order, he cannot be said to have knowledge of that order for purposes of contempt proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lesh v. Lesh“if there is both knowledge and a stubborn resistance of a trial court directive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lesh v. Lesh
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.