Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
136 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 136 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Turner v. Hammocks Beach Corp. (2009), 198 N.C. App. 407 - Sabates v. Sabates (2009)
136 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 Veazey v. City of Durham · White v. White · Waters v. Qualified Personnel, Inc. · Worthington v. Bynum · Clark v. Clark
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 136 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trial court may be reversed for abuse of discretion only upon a showing that its actions are `manifestly unsupported by reason.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“A ruling committed to a trial court's discretion is to be accorded great deference and will be upset only upon a showing that it was so arbitrary that it could not have been the result of a reasoned decision.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he standard of review of a trial court's denial of a Rule 60(b) motion is abuse of discretion.”
4 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.