58 N.C. App. 524 - Whedon v. Whedon’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Strunk v. Chromy-Strunk (2006), 210 N.C. App. 319 - Robinson v. Robinson (2011)
48 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. § 71
Relies on Clark v. Clark · Williams v. Williams · Beall v. Beall · 10 N.C. App. 545 - In Re Custody of Stancil · Stanback v. Stanback
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he determination of what constitutes the reasonable needs and expenses of a party in an alimony action is within the discretion of the trial judge, and he is not required to accept at face value the assertion of living expenses offered by the litigants themselves.”
9 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.