Quick v. Quick’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
376 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 378 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably 127 N.C. App. 505 - Matter of Helms (1997), 151 N.C. App. 94 - In Re Anderson (2002)
376 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 Coble v. Coble · Williams v. Williams · Knutton v. Cofield · Crosby v. Crosby · Woodard v. Mordecai
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 378 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“findings of fact must be `sufficiently specific to enable an appellate court to review the decision and test the correctness of the judgment.'”
45 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) In all actions tried upon the facts without a jury or with an advisory jury, the court shall find the facts specially and state separately its conclusions of law thereon and direct the entry of the appropriate judgment.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the estates of the parties; (2) the earnings of the parties; (3) the earning capacity of the parties; (4) the condition of the parties; and (5) the accustomed standard of living of the parties.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.