174 N.C. App. 369 - Roberts v. McAllister’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 state decisions

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The purpose of the requirement that the court make findings of those specific facts which support its ultimate disposition of the case is to allow a reviewing court to determine from the record whether the judgment — and the legal conclusions which underlie it — represent a correct application of the law.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 204 N.C. App. 210 - Parrott v. Kriss · 189 N.C. App. 531 - Parnell v. Parnell

2. “If either parent is voluntarily unemployed or underemployed to the extent that the parent cannot provide a minimum level of support for himself or herself and his or her children when he or she is physically and mentally capable of doing go, and the court finds that the parent’s voluntary unemployment or underemployment is the result of a parent’s bad faith or deliberate suppression of income to avoid or minimize his or her child support obligation, child support may be calculated based on the parent’s potential, rather than actual income. Potential income may not be imputed to a parent who is physically or mentally incapacitated or is earing for a child who is under the age of three years and or whom support is being determined.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. LaFrance v. LaFrance

3. “intentional and willful avoidance and showed a deliberate disregard of her responsibility to support her children,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 179 N.C. App. 132 - McKyer v. McKyer