Richardson v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 1984
17 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 Pruett v. Pruett · Mercer v. Mercer · Fogartie v. Fogartie · Sguros v. Sguros · Deal v. Deal
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘G.S. 50-7 provides, as a ground for divorce from bed and board: “1. If either party abandons his or her family.” (Italics added.) It is available to the husband as well as to the wife. Abandonment under G.S. 50-7 (1) is not synonymous with the criminal offense defined in G.S. 14-322. “In a prosecution under G.S. 14-322, the State must establish (1) a wilful abandonment, and (2) a wilful failure to provide adequate support.” S. v. Lucas, 242 N.C. 84 , 86 S.E. 2d 770 . True, the husband’s wilful failure to provide adequate support for his wife may be evidence of his abandonment of her, but the mere fact that he provides adequate support for her does not in itself negative abandonment as used in G.S. 50-7(1). “A wife is entitled to her husband’s society and the protection of his name and home in cohabitation. The permanent denial of these rights may be aggravated by leaving her destitute or mitigated by a liberal provision for her support, but if the cohabitation is brought to an end without justification and without the consent of the wife and without the intention of renewing it, the matrimonial offense of desertion is complete.” 17 Am. Jur., Divorce and Separation Sec. 98.’ Pruett v. Pruett, 247 N.C. 13, 23 , 100 S.E. 2d 296, 303 . Accord: 24 Am. Jur. 2d, Divorce and Separation § 104; Nelson, Divorce and Annulment, Second Edition, Vol. I, § 4.05; Lee, North Carolina Family Law, Yol. 1, § 80, p. 305.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.