118 N.C. App. 19 - McGee v. McGee’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 2016 · most notably 179 N.C. App. 132 - McKyer v. McKyer (2006), 128 N.C. App. 512 - Wiggs v. Wiggs (1998)
46 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 Koufman v. Koufman · 101 N.C. App. 351 - Greer v. Greer · 24 N.C. App. 520 - Gibson v. Gibson · 54 N.C. App. 239 - Thomas v. Poole · 104 N.C. App. 798 - Davis v. Risley
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[M]odification of a child support order involves a two-step process. The court must first determine a substantial change of circumstances has taken place; only then does it proceed to apply the Guidelines to calculate the applicable amount of support.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a substantial change of circumstances has taken place; only then does it proceed [to the second step] to apply the North Carolina Child Support Guidelines to calculate the applicable amount of child support.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A change in circumstances may be shown in any of several ways: a substantial increase or decrease in the child's needs; a substantial and involuntary decrease in the income of the non-custodial parent even though the child's needs are unchanged; a voluntary decrease in income of either supporting parent, absent bad faith, upon a showing of changed circumstances relating to child oriented expenses; and, for support orders that are at least three years old, proof of a disparity of fifteen (15) percent or more between the amount of support payable under the original order and the amount owed under North Carolina's Child Support Guidelines based upon the parties' current income and expenses.”
2 later decisions 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.