124 N.C. App. 647 - Riggs v. Riggs’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2018
9 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 81 N.C. App. 159 - Lawing v. Lawing · 80 N.C. App. 110 - Nix v. Nix · 102 N.C. App. 199 - Atkins v. Atkins · 97 N.C. App. 77 - Miller v. Miller · 86 N.C. App. 418 - Byrd v. Owens
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is one incurred during the marriage and before the date of separation by either spouse or both spouses for the joint benefit of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“as to whether property is marital or separate ... will not be disturbed on appeal if there is competent evidence to support the findings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Id. (citations omitted). Furthermore, the trial court's determination”
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.