Becker v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 1999 · most notably Wright v. Wright (1972), 132 N.C. App. 291 - Few v. Hammack Enterprises, Inc. (1999)
24 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 Holden v. Holden · Watters Ex Rel. Watters v. Parrish · King v. . King · Keen v. . Parker · Hayes v. Ricard
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Likewise, it is provided in G.S. 50-10 that in a trial pursuant thereto, “neither the husband nor wife shall be a competent witness to prove the adultery of the other, nor shall the admissions of either party be received as evidence to prove such fact.” In the case of Perkins v. Perkins, 88 N.C. 41 , Ruffin, J., said: “The provision of the statute (Battle’s Revisal, Chapter 17, Section 341, now G.S. 8-56) is so pointed and its language so plain — that in such trials, neither the husband nor the wife shall be a competent witness to prove the adultery of the other, nor shall the admissions of either be received as evidence to prove such fact — as to leave no room for doubt or construction.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Hicks v. Hicks · Hicks v. Hicks
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.