81 N.C. App. 675 - Dunlap v. Dunlap’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably Sharpe v. Worland (1999), 139 N.C. App. 222 - Brewer v. Brewer (2000)
45 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 73 N.C. App. 331 - Heavner v. Heavner · 49 N.C. App. 446 - Dworsky v. Travelers Insurance · Ingle v. Allen · 59 N.C. App. 533 - Smart v. Smart
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a temporary child custody order is interlocutory and does not affect any substantial right ... which cannot be protected by timely appeal from the trial court's ultimate disposition ... on the merits.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“An interlocutory order is one that does not determine the issues, but directs some further proceeding preliminary to a final decree.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“does not finally determine the issue involved, but only provides for temporary custody until an August hearing date for further proceedings preliminary to a. final decree.”
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.