Taylor v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably State v. Green (1998), 168 N.C. App. 283 - Spicer v. Spicer (2005)
62 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 Clark v. Clark · Hudson v. Hudson · Rickert v. Rickert · Derebery v. Pitt County Fire Marshall · 107 N.C. App. 140 - Lawrence v. Tise
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he plaintiff is an interested party acting in good faith who has insufficient means with which to defray the expense of this suit. . . The defendant has the means and ability with which to pay plaintiff’s attorney’s fees from her earnings and her estate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A party has insufficient means to defray the expense of the suit when he or she is 'unable to employ adequate counsel in order to proceed as litigant to meet the other spouse as litigant in the suit.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The trial judge made findings pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 50-13.6 for a child custody and support suit. The trial court found that defendant was an interested party and that she was acting in good faith, and plaintiff does not challenge these findings. However, after considering the testimony on defendant’s financial condition, the trial court found that defendant had sufficient means to defray the expense of the action. Defendant contends, essentially, that the trial court cannot make this determination without considering the relative estates of the parties. Plaintiff, on the other hand, contends that such a determination can be made without a comparison of the estates of the parties. We agree with plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Van Every v. McGuire
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.