125 N.C. App. 113 - Collins v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2015
22 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 Armstrong v. Armstrong · 99 N.C. App. 153 - Von Ramm v. Von Ramm · McLean v. McLean · 184 W. Va. 744 - Wood v. Wood · 106 N.C. App. 91 - Haywood v. Haywood
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“18. The parties presented evidence on numerous contentions for an unequal division. After giving due regard to the contentions of the parties and all the factors set forth in G.S. § 50-20(c), an equal division of the marital property would be inequitable based on the following factors (G.S. § 50-20(c)(6), (11a) and (12)): (a) The plaintiff contributed approximately $34,000.00 to his deferred compensation plan during the marriage from income which was earned prior to the marriage but deferred. These funds were his separate property, and were spent during the marriage for the support of the family. (b) The plaintiff used his separate funds to make the downpayment on the... residence of $20,000.00, and he expended in excess of $77,000.00 of his separate funds to complete the residence.... (c) The plaintiff is assuming responsibility for repaying the equity line obtained by the defendant against the ... residence which, at the date of trial, had a balance of $14,963.65. The plaintiff should be awarded credit for one-half the repayment of this marital debt because not all of these funds were used for marital purposes. (d) The Court does not find the failure of the plaintiff to return [defendant's] property to be willful and will not find him to be in contempt of court, but finds that the defendant is entitled to a credit of $4,500.00 for the damage done to certain of her personalty and for the loss of use of the property since the expiration of the 50B order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“due regard [was given] to the contentions of the parties and all the factors set forth in G.S. § 50-20(c)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a spouse's contribution of [her] separate property to the marital estate”
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.