188 N.C. App. 806 - Craddock v. Craddock’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2022
20 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Summey v. Barker · Coastal Ready-Mix Concrete Co, Inc. v. Board of Commissioners of Town of Nags Head · Reid v. Eckerds Drugs, Inc. · 35 N.C. App. 290 - Capps v. City of Raleigh · 40 N.C. App. 739 - Smith v. Currie
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The statute reflects several of the goals of the ‘live-in lover statutes,’ terminating alimony in relationships that probably have an economic impact, preventing a recipient from avoiding in bad faith the termination that would occur at remarriage, but not the goal of imposing some kind of sexual fidelity on the recipient as the condition of continued alimony. The first sentence reflects the goal of terminating alimony in a relationship that probably has an economic impact. ‘Continuous and habitual’ connotes a relationship of some duration and suggests that the relationship must be exclusive and monogamous as well. All of these factors increase the likelihood that the relationship has an economic impact on the recipient spouse.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he Supreme Court and this Court have emphasized in numerous opinions that upon a motion for summary judgment it is [not] part of the court's function to decide issues of fact but solely to determine whether there is an issue of fact to be tried. Despite our frequent reminders, we find that some of the trial judges continue to treat the motion for summary judgment as a hearing upon the merits before the court without a jury where the judge becomes the trier of the facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“As used in this subsection, cohabitation means the act of two adults dwelling together continuously and habitually in a private heterosexual relationship, even if this relationship is not solemnized by marriage[.]... Cohabitation is evidenced by the voluntary mutual assumption of those marital rights, duties, and obligations which are usually manifested by married people, and which include, but are not necessarily dependent on, sexual relations....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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