122 N.C. App. 518 - Hancock v. Hancock’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably 127 N.C. App. 705 - Sharpe v. Nobles (1997), In Re Marriage of Rideout (2003)
49 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 · Clark v. Clark · 52 N.C. App. 104 - Jones v. Jones · 82 N.C. App. 244 - Woncik v. Woncik · 62 N.C. App. 387 - Smithwick v. Frame
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“did everything possible short of using physical force or a threat of punishment to make the child go with his father.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“does not prevent visitation but takes no action to force visitation when the child refuses to go,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“'Willful' has been defined as disobedience which imports knowledge and a stubborn resistance, and as something more than an intention to do a thing. It implies doing the act purposely and deliberately, indicating a purpose to do it, without authority-careless whether [the contemnor] has the right or not-in violation of law[.]”
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.