73 N.C. App. 68 - Phillips v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2009 · most notably 74 N.C. App. 144 - McLeod v. McLeod (1985), 6 Va. App. 94 - Lambert v. Lambert (1988)
36 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 In Re the Estate of Wallace · 70 N.C. App. 665 - Hinton v. Hinton · 50 N.C. App. 681 - Matter of Ferguson · Hall v. Hall
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Simply because the transaction occurred after the parties’ separation does not mean that the condominium is not marital property. If the funds [husband] gave [wife] were marital funds, then their exchange for other property after separation does not convert them into separate property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“gross sales, cost of goods sold, profit, operating expenses, and income and retained earnings[.]”
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.