189 N.C. App. 622 - Frey v. Best’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Payment of support for a child of a former marriage may not be avoided merely because the husband has remarried and thereby voluntarily assumed additional obligations. Increases in expenses that were voluntarily assumed additional obligations, including entering into another marital and family relationship, although they may render the child support payments more burdensome, do not justify a reduction in such payments.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 261 N.C. App. 600 - Hill v. Hill

2. “find specific ultimate facts to support [its] judgment [that there has been a material and substantial change in circumstances to support a modification of an alimony order], and the facts found must be sufficient for the appellate court to determine that the judgment is adequately supported by competent evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 241 N.C. App. 175 - Bledsoe v. Bledsoe

3. “This Court has held that the trial court's failure [to consider or] to make any findings regarding [the dependent spouse's] reasonable current financial needs and expenses and the ratio of those needs and expenses to [his or] her income constitute[s] error.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 241 N.C. App. 175 - Bledsoe v. Bledsoe