241 N.C. App. 487 - Nicks v. Nicks’s Empirical Analysis

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12 state decisions

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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.

1. “The determination of what constitutes the reasonable needs and expenses of a party in an alimony action is within the discretion of the trial judge, and [the judge] is not required to accept at face value the assertion of living expenses offered by the litigants themselves.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 249 N.C. App. 1 - Burger v. Burger · 263 N.C. App. 380 - Walton v. Walton

2. “Our standard of review for alleged errors in a trial court's classification and valuation of divisible and marital property is well-settled: [w]hen the trial court sits without a jury, the standard of review on appeal is whether there was competent evidence to support the trial court's findings of fact and whether its conclusions of law were proper in light of such facts. While findings of fact by the trial court in a non-jury case are conclusive on appeal if there is evidence to support those findings, conclusions of law are reviewable de novo . We review the trial court's distribution of property for an abuse of discretion.”

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

3. “when a third party holds legal title to property which is claimed to be marital property, that third party is a necessary party to the equitable distribution proceeding, with their participation limited to the issue of the ownership of that property.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 245 N.C. App. 1 - Carpenter v. Carpenter