127 N.C. App. 409 - Becker v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2017
23 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 White v. White · 81 N.C. App. 159 - Lawing v. Lawing · 111 N.C. App. 460 - Smith v. Smith · Smith v. Smith · Smith v. Smith
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may consider a party's earning potential as a factor justifying an unequal division of marital property”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“legal or business impediments, or some overriding social policy, prevent completion of the distribution within the six-year period. Our court later held the trial court has a concurrent duty to affirmatively find the existence of these grounds for extending the payment period beyond six years. ... In addition, we have also stated that awards for periods longer than six years, if necessary, should be crafted to assure completion of payment as promptly as possible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A marital debt 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. The party who claims that any debt is marital bears the burden of proof on that issue. The party so claiming must prove the value of the debt on the date of separation and that it was incurred during the marriage for the joint benefit of the husband and wife.”
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.