66 N.C. App. 522 - Mayer v. Mayer’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably 112 N.C. App. 484 - Miller v. Talton (1993), 118 N.C. App. 485 - Carolina Medicorp, Inc. v. Board of Trustees of North Carolina Teachers' & State Employees' Comprehensive Major Medical Plan (1995)
46 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 Williams v. State of North Carolina · Vaca v. Sipes · Gibbons v. United States · Rosenstiel v. Rosenstiel · Harlan v. Harlan
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.
“... not limited to situations of “true estoppel” where one party induces another to rely to his damage upon certain representations. The rule may be applied whenever, under all the circumstances, it would be inequitable to permit a particular person to challenge the validity of a divorce decree. Such inequity may exist when action has been taken in reliance on the divorce or expectations are based on it or when the attack on the divorce is inconsistent with the earlier conduct of the attacking party.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`regardless of whether the person [attacked] had actually relied upon that conduct.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“As much as in any area of the law, quasi estoppel cases turn on the particular facts of each case. The facts in this case compel the conclusion we reach. The record suggests that [Victor] insisted on [Doris’s] obtaining a Dominican divorce; that he promised to support her in a manner better than the one she had been accustomed to prompting [Doris] to sign away any alimony she may have been entitled to from [Fred]; and that he accompanied her on her trip to the Dominican Republic, paying for her transportation and lodging, and other personal expenses. After the divorce, [Victor] continued to uphold its validity as he had [Doris] sign a prenuptial agreement and he married her. While they were married, [Victor] lived in [Doris’s] house and borrowed money from her, including $25,000 which he admits he has not repaid. [Victor] never questioned the validity of the marriage until he abandoned [Doris], In addition, [Doris] relied on the divorce’s validity. Failure to estop [Victor] in this case would result in matrimonial uncertainty because ... it creates the impossible situation of a wife or a husband “at will” where the divorced party who remarried cannot avoid the obligation of his remarriage, while the second spouse could at any time get an annulment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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