136 N.C. App. 803 - Belcher v. Averette’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
November 2018
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mauney v. Mauney · 99 N.C. App. 380 - Hartsell v. Hartsell · Lamm v. . Lamm · 34 N.C. App. 201 - Lindsey v. Lindsey · 74 N.C. App. 82 - Plott v. Plott
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To show such cause, a party must establish a lack of means to pay support or an absence of willfulness in failing to pay support.”
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.