10 N.C. App. 463 - Robinson v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2002 · most notably 49 N.C. App. 463 - Britt v. Britt (1980), 107 N.C. App. 140 - Lawrence v. Tise (1992)
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 Conrad v. Conrad · Harrell v. Harrell · Brady v. Brady · Rock v. Rock · Snuggs v. Snuggs
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the husband is honestly and in good faith engaged in a business to which he is properly adapted, and is making a good faith effort to earn a reasonable income, the award should be based on the amount which defendant is earning when the award is made. To base an award on capacity to earn rather than actual earnings, there should be a finding based on evidence that the husband is failing to exercise his capacity to earn because of a disregard of his marital obligation to provide reasonable support for his wife and children.” Robinson v. Robinson, 10 N.C. App. 463, 468 , 179 S.E. 2d 144, 147 (1971) (citation omitted).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““Alimony shall be in such amount as the circumstances render necessary, having due regard to the estates, earnings, earning capacity, condition, accustomed standard of living of the parties, and other facts of the particular case.” [Emphasis ours.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robinson v. Robinson
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.