77 N.C. App. 717 - Beaman v. Beaman’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 140 N.C. App. 369 - Barrett v. Barrett (2000), 127 N.C. App. 20 - Barham v. Barham (1997)
29 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. Williams · 47 N.C. App. 323 - Brown v. Brown · 51 N.C. App. 522 - Condie v. Condie · 52 N.C. App. 543 - Knott v. Knott
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A "dependent spouse" must be either actually substantially dependent upon the other spouse or substantially in need of maintenance and support from the other spouse.... A party is "actually substantially dependent" upon her spouse if she is currently unable to meet her own maintenance and support. A party is "substantially in need of maintenance and support" if she will be unable to meet her needs in the future, even if she is currently meeting those needs. If the trial court determines that a party's reasonable monthly expenses exceed her monthly income, and that she has no other means with which to meet those expenses, it may properly conclude the party is dependent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[T]o properly find a spouse dependent the court need only find that the spouse's reasonable monthly expenses exceed her monthly income and that the party has no other means with which to meet those expenses.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Ordinarily, the parties will not be required to deplete their estates to pay alimony or to meet personal expenses.”
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.