46 N.C. App. 495 - Gordon v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2015
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 Crosby v. Crosby · 6 N.C. App. 401 - Rothman v. Rothman · 34 N.C. App. 583 - Searl v. Searl · 25 N.C. App. 90 - King v. Allen · 8 N.C. App. 25 - In Re Custody of Poole
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.
“In the case sub judice, the only finding of change of circumstance is that the child has moved from his original home to “strange,” i.e. unfamiliar neighborhoods. There are no findings that the moves proved disruptive or detrimental to the child’s welfare; that the home and surrounding neighborhood in which the child presently lives differs from his original home, is inadequate, or has an adverse affect on the child’s welfare or that the placement of the child in an unfamiliar neighborhood has had any impact on the child’s adjustment. The mere fact that either parent changes his residence is not a substantial change of circumstance.”
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“Where a parent changes his residence, the effect on the welfare of the child must be shown in order for the court to modify a custody decree based on change of circumstance.”
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.