Parsons v. Parsons’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. “A spouse is entitled to attorney's fees if that spouse is (1) the dependent spouse, (2) entitled to the underlying relief demanded ... and (3) without sufficient means to defray the costs of litigation.... [W]hether [a] plaintiff ha[s] sufficient funds to defray the costs of litigation ... generally focus [es] on the disposable income and estate of just that spouse, although a comparison of the two spouses' estates may sometimes be appropriate.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hatton v. Garrett

2. “Plaintiff primarily contends that the trial court's findings of fact on defendant's expenses were erroneous because the financial affidavit presented by defendant, on which the trial court largely based its findings regarding defendant's income and expenses, was unsupported by other evidence. Plaintiff fails to recognize that the affidavit itself is evidence of defendant's expenses.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 262 N.C. App. 421 - Rea v. Rea

3. “argument simply goes to the credibility and weight to be given to the affidavit. [Wife] was free to attack [Husband's] affidavit at trial by cross-examination.... Such determinations of credibility are for the trial court, not this Court.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 249 N.C. App. 1 - Burger v. Burger