32 N.C. App. 154 - Montgomery v. Montgomery’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Quick v. Quick (1982), Coble v. Coble (1980)
101 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 Crosby v. Crosby · 10 N.C. App. 545 - In Re Custody of Stancil · Blackley v. Blackley · Swicegood v. Swicegood · 10 N.C. App. 402 - Peoples v. Peoples
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'sufficient for the appellate court to determine that the judgment [was] adequately supported by competent evidence.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“The deficiency * * * is more than a technical one. The necessity for the finding of facts and entry thereof, and for the conclusions of law to be drawn from the facts, is to allow review by the appellate courts. Without such findings and conclusions, we are unable to determine whether or not the judge correctly found the facts or applied the law thereto. [Citations omitted.] Without such findings we may only surmise what the trial court found.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A "conclusion of law" is the court's statement of the law which is determinative of the matter at issue between the parties. A conclusion of law must be based on the facts found by the court and must be stated separately. The conclusions of law necessary to be stated are the conclusions which, under the facts found, are required by the law and from which the judgment is to result.”
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.