36 N.C. App. 601 - Steele v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 185 N.C. App. 337 - In Re THT (2007), 67 N.C. App. 73 - Dixon v. Dixon (1984)
77 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.
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“These findings may concern physical, mental, or financial fitness or any other factors brought out by the evidence and relevant to the issue of the welfare of the child.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]n order for child support must be based upon the interplay of the trial court’s conclusions of law as to (1) the amount of support necessary to “meet the reasonable needs of the child” and (2) the relative ability of the parties to provide that amount. These conclusions must themselves be based upon factual findings specific enough to indicate to the appellate court that the judge below took “due regard” of the particular “estates, earnings, conditions, [and] accustomed standard of living” of both the child and the parents.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“An order for custody of a minor child ... shall award the custody of such child to such person ... as will best promote the interest and welfare of the child. In making the determination, the court shall consider all relevant factors ... and shall make findings accordingly. An order for custody must include findings of fact which support the determination of what is in the best interest of the child.”
5 later decisions 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.