74 N.C. App. 82 - Plott v. Plott’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2019
22 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 Coble v. Coble · 21 N.C. App. 390 - Bennett v. Bennett · Fitch v. Fitch · 68 N.C. App. 566 - Gibson v. Gibson · 64 N.C. App. 600 - Medlin v. Medlin
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he statutes governing proceedings for civil contempt. . . cases clearly assign the burden of proof to the party alleged to be [in contempt]. Civil contempt proceedings are initiated by a party interested in enforcing the [trial court’s] order by filing a motion in the cause. . . . The opposing party must then show cause why [s]he should not be found in contempt.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is well established that in civil contempt proceedings to enforce orders for child support, the court is required to find only that the allegedly delinquent obligor has the means to comply with the order and that he or she wilfully refused to do so.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Though the findings are not explicit, it is clear that plaintiff both possessed the means to comply with the order and has wilfully refused to do so. While explicit findings are always preferable, they are not absolutely essential where the findings otherwise clearly indicate that a contempt order is warranted.”
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.