Ludlam v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he trial court must ... make sufficient findings of fact and conclusions of law to allow the reviewing court to determine whether a judgment, and the legal conclusions that underlie it, represent a correct application of the law.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 255 N.C. App. 543 - Sarno v. Sarno · 241 N.C. App. 487 - Nicks v. Nicks

2. “[t]he trial court found that both Plaintiff and Defendant had searched for employment, but both had been unsuccessful. Less clear from the order is whether the trial court found that Plaintiff and Defendant had acted in bad faith. Our general impression is that the trial court found no bad faith. However, a literal reading of this finding of fact suggests that the trial court found bad faith which was insufficient to impute income at a prior income level, but that it found bad faith that was sufficient to impute income at the minimum wage. Neither of the above interpretations of the trial court's order would support imputation of income at minimum wage.”

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

3. “[b]efore the earnings capacity rule is imposed, it must be shown that [the party's] actions which reduced [her] income were not taken in good faith.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 241 N.C. App. 487 - Nicks v. Nicks