107 N.C. App. 484 - Lilly v. Lilly’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2013
16 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 Johnson v. Johnson · 80 N.C. App. 110 - Nix v. Nix · 76 N.C. App. 545 - Talent v. Talent · 106 N.C. App. 91 - Haywood v. Haywood · City of Statesville v. Cloaninger
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A party claiming that property is marital has the burden of proving beyond a preponderance of the evidence that the property was acquired by either or both spouses, during the marriage, before the date of separation, and is presently owned. If the party meets this burden, then the burden shifts to the party claiming the property to be separate to show by a preponderance of the evidence that the property meets the definition of separate property. If both parties meet their burdens, the property is considered separate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[ 1] all real and personal property acquired by a spouse before marriage[;] ... [2] [property acquired in exchange for separate property!; and] ... [3] increasefs] in value of separate property and income derived from separate property ....”
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.