34 N.C. App. 583 - Searl v. Searl’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Pulliam v. Smith (1998), 107 N.C. App. 71 - Ramirez-Barker v. Barker (1992)
29 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 Kelsey-Hayes Co. v. Dunlop Co. · Blackley v. Blackley · Spence v. Durham · 6 N.C. App. 401 - Rothman v. Rothman · American Institute of Marketing Systems, Inc. v. Willard Realty Co.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When an order for support of a minor child has been entered by a court of another state, a court of this State may, upon gaining jurisdiction, and upon a showing of changed circumstances, enter a new order for support which modifies or supersedes such order for support, ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]n order for a change in circumstances to be substantial, `[i]t must be shown that circumstances have so changed that the welfare of the child will be adversely affected unless the custody provision is modified.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pulliam v. Smith
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.