89 N.C. App. 289 - Blee v. Blee’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “While we realize the better practice would be for the formal judgment to be prepared and signed immediately after the hearing, such is seldom, if ever, possible or practical, and it is not necessary or required by our rules. It would be a travesty to say that a party to a judgment so solemnly promulgated and entered as the one depicted by this record could repudiate that judgment at any time after the judgment was entered. Defendant’s efforts three days later to repudiate the judgment are of no effect whatsoever.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 134 N.C. App. 82 - Buckingham v. Buckingham

2. “where judgment is rendered in open court, the clerk shall make a notation in his minutes as the judge may direct and such notation shall constitute the entry of judgment for the purposes of these rules. The judge shall approve the form of the judgment and direct its prompt preparation and filing.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 134 N.C. App. 82 - Buckingham v. Buckingham