70 N.C. App. 458 - Wallace v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
November 1991
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 59 N.C. App. 633 - Koonce v. May · 56 N.C. App. 725 - Horney v. Horney · 28 N.C. App. 713 - Owens v. Owens · Overton v. Henderson
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are persuaded that the “more definite line” needed to be drawn in adultery cases is to require that in order to establish adultery, the evidence, whether circumstantial or direct, must tend to show both opportunity and inclination to engage in sexual intercourse and that when the evidence shows no more than an opportunity, an issue of adultery should not be submitted.”
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.