5 N.C. App. 160 - Greer v. Greer’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 1994
17 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 2 N.C. App. 211 - In Re the Custody of Pitts · Holmes v. Sanders · 1 N.C. App. 393 - In Re the Custody of Ross · Holmes v. Sanders
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]ustody cases often involve difficult decisions. However, it is necessary that the trial judge be given wide discretion in making his determination for “the trial judge has the opportunity to see the parties in person and to hear the witnesses.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“He has the opportunity to see the parties in person and to hear the witnesses, and his decision ought not be upset on appeal absent a clear showing of abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a parent's love must yield to another, if, after judicial investigation, it is found that the best interest of the child is subserved thereby.”
1 later decision 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.