77 N.C. App. 839 - Voss v. Summerfield’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
March 2005
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Fuchs v. Fuchs · 40 N.C. App. 270 - Ebron v. Ebron · State v. Childers · 41 N.C. App. 756 - Winborne v. Winborne · Woodhouse v. Board of Commissioners
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]o agreement or contract between husband and wife will serve to deprive the courts of their... authority to protect the interests and provide for the welfare of [children]. They may bind themselves by a separation agreement or by a consent judgment, but they cannot thus withdraw children . . . from the protective custody of the court.”
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.