137 N.C. App. 72 - Shumaker v. Shumaker’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 99 N.C. App. 380 - Hartsell v. Hartsell · McBride v. McBride · 32 N.C. App. 76 - Goodson v. Goodson · 82 N.C. App. 289 - Adkins v. Adkins · Lamm v. . Lamm
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'When reviewing a trial court's contempt order, the appellate court is limited to determining whether there is competent evidence to support the trial court's findings and whether the findings support the conclusions [of law].'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The party alleged to be delinquent has the burden of proving either that he lacked the means to pay or that his failure to pay was not willful.”
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.