152 N.C. App. 185 - Edwards v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
January 2016
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on White v. White · 143 N.C. App. 387 - Friend-Novorska v. Novorska · Friend-Novorska v. Novorska · 140 N.C. App. 303 - Wall v. Wall · McNamara v. Wilmington Mall Realty Corp.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the court determines that an equal division is not equitable, the court shall divide the marital property and divisible property equitably”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the finding of a single distributional factor under N.C. Gen.Stat. § 50-20(c) may support an unequal division.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“revise its order distributing the parties' marital [and divisible] property”
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.