65 N.C. App. 506 - Phillips v. Choplin’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2016
8 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 · Matter of Custody of Peal · Smith v. AMERICAN RADIATOR & STANDARD SANITARY CORPORATION · 37 N.C. App. 364 - Matter of Kowalzek · In the Matter of Kowalzek
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trial judge's decision will not be upset in the absence of a clear abuse of discretion if the findings are supported by competent evidence.”
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.