21 N.C. App. 306 - Hensley v. Hensley’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2016
12 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 Crosby v. Crosby · 14 N.C. App. 531 - Jarman v. Jarman · 13 N.C. App. 334 - In Re the Custody of Mason · 11 N.C. App. 351 - In Re Harrell · 15 N.C. App. 665 - Kenney v. Kenney
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.
“showing that circumstances have changed between the time of the [custody] order and the time of the hearing on [the] motion [to modify]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a showing of changed circumstances by either party or anyone interested.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.