70 N.C. App. 159 - Spencer v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably 81 N.C. App. 159 - Lawing v. Lawing (1986), 102 N.C. App. 484 - United Laboratories, Inc. v. Kuykendall (1991)
38 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 Quick v. Quick · Coble v. Coble · Clark v. Clark · Beall v. Beall · H. K. Porter Co. v. National Friction Products Corp.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we presume that the trial judge disregards incompetent evidence. [Citation omitted.] On appeal, it must be shown that the trial judge was affirmatively influenced by the incompetent matter to justify a finding of prejudicial error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“However, this Court must endeavor to reconcile apparently inconsistent findings and uphold the judgment when practicable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'safely and accurately decide the question,'”
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.