157 N.C. App. 284 - Mason v. Erwin’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
September 2017
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on White v. White · Bowes v. Bowes · 152 N.C. App. 438 - Leary v. Leary · 151 N.C. App. 523 - Wolf v. Wolf · Kelly v. Bradley
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[c]hild support orders entered by a trial court are accorded substantial deference by appellate courts and our review is limited to a determination of whether there was a clear abuse of discretion.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'intentionally leav[es] his employment to go into another business'”
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.