159 N.C. App. 487 - Rice v. Rice’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
July 2015
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 72 N.C. App. 372 - Wade v. Wade · Williams v. Williams · 81 N.C. App. 159 - Lawing v. Lawing · Johnson v. Johnson · 111 N.C. App. 460 - Smith v. Smith
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the trial court the authority to consider the future prospects of the parties, as well as their status at the time of the hearing”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“there is no difference between financial contributions to reduce the mortgage principal and those to improve the property itself. Because both types of active contributions entitle the marital estate to a proportionate return on its investment, the trial court properly applied the source of funds rule . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“As the point in evaluating the parties' accustomed standard of living is to consider the pooling of resources that marriage allows,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.