104 N.C. App. 798 - Davis v. Risley’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably 118 N.C. App. 19 - McGee v. McGee (1995), 153 N.C. App. 40 - Miller v. Miller (2002)
32 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 34 N.C. App. 583 - Searl v. Searl · 42 N.C. App. 560 - Gilmore v. Gilmore · 90 N.C. App. 254 - Fischell v. Rosenberg
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here the moving party is relying on either an increase or decrease in the child's needs to establish changed circumstances, she has the burden of 'showing the child's expenses both at the time the original support order was entered and at the present time.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The changed circumstances must relate to child-oriented expenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chapman v. Pimentel
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.