56 N.C. App. 714 - Cole v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2009
12 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 47 N.C. App. 196 - Marsico v. Adams · 34 N.C. App. 53 - Neasham v. Day · 41 N.C. App. 193 - Snelling & Snelling, Inc. v. Watson · Sibley, Lindsay & Curr v. Gilmer
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n order to hold the husband liable, a person furnishing necessaries to a wife living separate and apart from her husband has the burden of showing that either by agreement or by the husband’s fault or misconduct the wife was justified in living apart from the husband and that the husband had failed or neglected to supply her with necessaries or to make adequate provision for her support. ... 41 C.J.S. Husband and Wife § 52a. at 516-517 (1944); Annot. 60 A.L.R.2d 7 (1958).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]n cases where the husband and wife had separated, no notice of separation need be given to prevent his liability for debts contracted by the wife during the separation — even for necessaries— the law being that if the separation was without good cause on the part of the wife, her debt contracted even for necessaries was not. . . binding on the husband. . . .”
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.