Loosvelt v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The trial court's order seems to "divide the father's wealth" by basing child support upon a number calculated by adding one-third of plaintiff's "shared family expenses" to the child's historical individual expenses. The order also finds that plaintiff resided in Los Angeles, California, but fails to make any findings of fact as to how plaintiff's expenses incurred in California, which apparently do not include any child-related expenditures, relate to the expenses of raising a child, even the child of a wealthy parent, in Charlotte, North Carolina.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 246 N.C. App. 518 - Lasecki v. Lasecki

2. “In addition to the actual needs of the child, a [parent] has a legal duty to give his [or her] children those advantages which are reasonable considering his [or her] financial condition and his [or her] position in society.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 247 N.C. App. 135 - Smith v. Smith

3. “'[A] party seeking retroactive child support must present sufficient evidence of past expenditures made on behalf of the child, and evidence that such expenditures were reasonably necessary.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 247 N.C. App. 135 - Smith v. Smith