Joyner v. Joyner’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Quick v. Quick (1982), Beall v. Beall (1976)
56 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Griffin v. Griffin · Bailey v. McPherson · Bailey v. Bailey · Gotthelf v. Fickett · Heuser v. Heuser
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]aking an appeal does not authorize a violation of the order.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Our decisions appear to be uniform in holding an appeal to this Court removes a cause from the [trial] court which is thereafter without power to proceed further until the cause is returned by the mandate of this Court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“North Carolina cases fit into the general rule that appeal removes the entire proceeding to the [appellate] Court and leaves the [lower] court functus officio until the cause is remanded.”
2 later decisions 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.