37 N.C. App. 481 - Spencer v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2012
6 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 183 · 26 U.S.C. § 212
Relies on Reed v. Reed · Linda R. S. v. Richard D. · Frontiero v. Richardson · Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld · Lockwood 26 1894 Fuller v.
Most-quoted passages
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“[w]hen first enacted, G.S. 52-6 (or, rather, its forerunner) conferred a right - the right to enter into a separation agreement .... The question is whether the requirement that women have a privy exam prior to entering a separation agreement is a permissible restriction. While in 1915 if was a permissible restriction, the privy exam itself is now and always has been a restriction on the exercise of a right -not a right in itself. This Court has previously held that freedom of contract is a valuable right. See North Carolina Assoc. of Licensed Detectives v. Morgan, Attorney General, 17 N.C. App. 701 , 195 S.E. 2d 357 (1973). We do not believe that infringing upon the freedom of contract enjoyed by married males would be the proper means to remedy the alleged invidious discrimination of G.S. 52-6. The proper remedy, indeed, the only remedy, would be to strike the privy exam requirement from G.S. 52-6.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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