165 N.C. App. 390 - Larkin v. Larkin’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
December 2013
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hudson v. Hudson · 143 N.C. App. 387 - Friend-Novorska v. Novorska · 140 N.C. App. 369 - Barrett v. Barrett · 90 N.C. App. 58 - Beightol v. Beightol · Friend-Novorska v. Novorska
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.
“A spouse is entitled to attorney’s fees if that spouse is (1) the dependent spouse, (2) entitled to the underlying relief demanded ..., and (3) without sufficient means to defray the costs of litigation. Entitlement, i.e., the satisfaction of these three requirements, is a question of law, fully reviewable on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parsons v. Parsons
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.