49 N.C. App. 463 - Britt v. Britt’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 108 N.C. App. 169 - Drouillard v. Keister Williams Newspaper Services, Inc. (1992), Rowe v. Rowe (1982)
53 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. § 62
Relies on Lane v. Scarborough · Beall v. Beall · Bunn v. Bunn · White v. White · Levitch v. Levitch
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is apparent that not any change of circumstances will be sufficient to order modification of an alimony award; rather, the phrase is used as a term of art to mean a substantial change in conditions, upon which the moving party bears the burden of proving that the present award is either inadequate or unduly burdensome.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““Where the change in the circumstances is one that the trial court expected and probably made allowances for when entering the original decree, the change is not a ground for a modification of the decree. In accord with the view it is said that minor fluctuations in income are a common occurrence and the likelihood that they would occur must have been considered by the court when it entered a decree for alimony.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“may be modified or vacated at any time, upon motion in the cause and a showing of changed circumstances by either party . . .”
2 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.