134 N.C. App. 460 - Sain v. Sain’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 168 N.C. App. 283 - Spicer v. Spicer (2005), 141 N.C. App. 340 - Cantrell v. Wishon (2000)
32 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 Pulliam v. Smith · 52 N.C. App. 203 - Falls v. Falls · Combs v. Peters · Falls v. Falls · Pigott v. City of Wilmington
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the trial court must determine the presumptive child support amount under the Guidelines. Second, the trial court must hear evidence as to the reasonable needs of the child for support and the relative ability of each parent to provide support. Third, the trial court must determine, by the greater weight of this evidence, whether the presumptive support amount would not meet or would exceed the reasonable needs of the child considering the relative ability of each parent to provide support or would be otherwise unjust or inappropriate. Fourth, following its determination that deviation is warranted, in order to allow effective appellate review, the trial court must enter written findings of fact showing the presumptive child support amount under the Guidelines; the reasonable needs of the child; the relative ability of each party to provide support; and that application of the Guidelines would exceed or would not meet the reasonable needs of the child or would be otherwise unjust or inappropriate.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“direct payment of the $421.00 [social security] disability check to [the][p]laintiff, the custodial parent.”
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.