37 N.C. App. 199 - Self v. Self’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2006
20 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 Beall v. Beall · Eudy v. Eudy · 12 N.C. App. 286 - Austin v. Austin · 32 N.C. App. 162 - Wyatt v. Wyatt · 21 N.C. App. 276 - Rickenbaker v. Rickenbaker
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Except as provided in G.S. 50-16.6 in case of adultery, the fact that the dependent spouse has committed an act or acts which would be grounds for alimony if such spouse were the supporting spouse shall be grounds for disallowance of alimony or reduction in the amount of alimony when pleaded in defense by the supporting spouse.””
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.