80 N.C. App. 110 - Nix v. Nix’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably Wiencek-Adams v. Adams (1992), 149 N.C. App. 723 - Walter v. Walter (2002)
56 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 White v. White · 72 N.C. App. 372 - Wade v. Wade · Wade v. Wade · Pittman v. FIRST PROTECTION LIFE INS. COMPANY · 68 N.C. App. 548 - Alexander v. Alexander
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen an appellant contends that the findings of fact are not supported by the evidence, we look to see whether the findings are supported by any competent evidence in the record.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“manifestly unsupported by reason, or that its ruling could not have been the result of a reasoned decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When there is conflicting testimony as to value, the trial court may not merely guess at a figure somewhere in between, but may arrive at such a middle figure after considering the factors involved in the various appraisals.”
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.