80 N.C. App. 27 - Appert v. Appert’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2019
17 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 Waters v. Qualified Personnel, Inc. · Yarborough v. Yarborough · Bernick v. Jurden · Bailey v. Gooding · 10 N.C. App. 545 - In Re Custody of Stancil
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is well established that [district court] judges are vested with wide discretion in determining matters concerning child custody[,].... [t]he ... judge's discretion ... can extend no further than the bounds of the authority vested in the ... judge. In proceedings involving the custody ... of a minor child, the ... judge is authorized to determine the party or parties to whom custody of the child shall be awarded, whether and to what extent a noncustodial person shall be allowed visitation privileges, ... whether an order for child custody or support shall be modified or vacated based on a change in circumstances, and certain other related matters . In addition, ... judges have authority to enforce orders concerning child custody ... by the methods set forth in [our General Statutes].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“trial judges in this State do not have authority to condition the receipt or payment of child support upon compliance with court-ordered visitation”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The duty to provide financial support is independent of visitation rights and one may not be made contingent upon the other.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Turnmire v. And
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.