14 N.C. App. 71 - Jackson v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 2014
6 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 10 N.C. App. 553 - State v. Harris · 10 N.C. App. 476 - Cox v. Cox · Hester v. Hester
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If thereafter there was a subsequent separation and need for [child] support payments..., the courts are open for whatever relief may be justified by the situation then existing. The original cause was at all times pending, and upon a proper motion and evidence to sustain same, an order could be entered granting whatever relief might be justified by the situation then existing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If, after the order... there was a reconciliation and the wife and ... children resumed the family group and lived together with the defendant-husband, the necessity for the [child] support payments ... ceased.”
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.