10 N.C. App. 476 - Cox v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 2004 · most notably 99 N.C. App. 380 - Hartsell v. Hartsell (1990), 77 N.C. App. 808 - McMiller v. McMiller (1985)
40 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 Mauney v. Mauney · Lamm v. . Lamm · Yow v. Yow · 8 N.C. App. 61 - Blair v. Blair · Dyer v. . Dyer
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.
“. . . this Court has required the trial courts to find as a fact that the defendant possessed the means to comply with orders of the court during the period when he was in default.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The legislature has clearly provided that punishment for wilful violation of orders for alimony, support and custody shall be as for contempt as provided by G.S. 5-8 and G.S. 5-9. These new statutes clearly eliminate the use of G.S. 5-1 in alimony, support, and custody cases, therefore the thirty day limitation on punishment as provided in G.S. 5-4 has no application to such proceedings, whether the contempt is present and continuing, or whether it is a past contempt. Nevertheless, indefinite confinement for failure to pay alimony or support is not authorized unless there is the finding of present capability to comply.” 10 N.C. App. at 480 , 179 S.E. 2d at 197 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Committing a husband to jail for an indefinite term, ie., until he complies with an order for support, is authorized when there is a present and continuing contempt. A present and continuing contempt exists when the husband presently possesses the means to comply, and wilfully fails or refuses to comply. A finding to this effect by the trial judge is necessary to support confinement for an indefinite term.” 10 N.C. App. at 479 , 179 S.E. 2d at 197 .”
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.