127 N.C. App. 705 - Sharpe v. Nobles’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 187 N.C. App. 55 - Watson v. Watson (2007), 153 N.C. App. 40 - Miller v. Miller (2002)
78 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 · 122 N.C. App. 518 - Hancock v. Hancock · 119 N.C. App. 242 - Askew v. Askew · 121 N.C. App. 334 - Smith v. Smith · 97 N.C. App. 227 - Koufman v. Koufman
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“limited to determining whether there is competent evidence to support the findings of fact and whether the findings support the conclusions of law.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although the statutes governing civil contempt do not expressly require willful conduct, see N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 5A-21 to 5A-25 (1986), case law has interpreted the statutes to require an element of willfulness. In the context of a failure to comply with a court order, the evidence must show that the person was guilty of “knowledge and stubborn resistence [sic]” in order to support a finding of willful disobedience.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A party's earning capacity may be used to calculate the award if he deliberately depressed his income or deliberately acted in disregard of his obligation to provide support.”
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.