Coble v. Coble’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
340 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 342 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Quick v. Quick (1982), Armstrong v. Armstrong (1988)
340 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 Knutton v. Cofield · Crosby v. Crosby · Beall v. Beall · 32 N.C. App. 154 - Montgomery v. Montgomery · Tidwell v. Booker
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 342 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“estates, earnings, conditions, [and] accustomed standard of living”
52 later decisions quote this exact passage“Our decision to remand this case for further evidentiary findings is not the result of an obeisance to mere technicality. Effective appellate review of an order entered by a trial court sitting without a jury is largely dependent upon the specificity by which the order’s rationale is articulated. Evidence must support findings; findings must support conclusions; conclusions must support the judgment. Each step of the progression must be taken by the trial judge, in logical sequence; each link in the chain of reasoning must appear in the order itself. Where there is a gap, it cannot be determined on appeal whether the trial court correctly exercised its function to find the facts and apply the law thereto.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage“a lack of a specific conclusion as to reasonableness will not necessarily be held for error[.]”
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.