113 N.C. App. 725 - Bishop v. Bishop’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably 171 N.C. App. 550 - Cunningham v. Cunningham (2005), 148 N.C. App. 329 - Fountain v. Fountain (2002)
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
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1408 · 26 U.S.C. § 414 (§ 1015 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Mansell v. Mansell · Armstrong v. Armstrong · Clauson v. Clauson · 97 N.C. App. 77 - Miller v. Miller · 82 N.C. App. 329 - Seifert v. Seifert
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.
“[t]his calculation cannot be made with reference to any table or chart and rests within the sound discretion of the trial court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The award shall be determined using the proportion of time the marriage existed (up to the date of separation of the parties), simultaneously with the employment which earned the vested and nonvested pension, retirement, or deferred compensation benefit, to the total amount of time of employment. . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Instead, the disability payments must be classified as the retiree's separate property and, as such, treated as a distributional factor.”
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.