81 N.C. App. 71 - Boyd v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Price v. Howard (1997), 101 N.C. App. 351 - Greer v. Greer (1991)
42 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 Quick v. Quick · Coble v. Coble · Crosby v. Crosby · Fuchs v. Fuchs · Hudson v. Hudson
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“took `due regard' of the particular `estates, earnings, conditions, [and] accustomed standard of living' of both the child and the parents,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(10) The Court specifically finds that the plaintiff has failed to rebut the presumption that the amount mutually agreed upon in the June, 1985, amended separation agreement is a just and reasonable amount of child support for the defendant to pay to the plaintiff; that the Court finds that said amount is fair and reasonable, taking into consideration the estates, earnings, conditions and accustomed standard of living of the children and the parties, the child care and homemaker contributions of each party and other facts of this particular case, including, inter alia, the remarriages of the parties. (11) As the defendant has received two five percent cost of living pay increases since the execution of the June, 1985, amended separation agreement, and as the defendant actually nets an increase in pay, after taxes, of approximately six percent of said increases in pay, the Court finds that it would be just and reasonable for the child support as agreed upon by the parties in the June, 1985, amended separation agreement to be increased by the sum of six percent for a total of $19.80 per month, or $9.90 per month per child. Based upon the foregoing findings of fact, the Court concludes that, as there is a presumption in the absence of evidence to the contrary that the amount mutually agreed upon by the parties in the June, 1985, amended separation agreement is just and reasonable, and as the plaintiff has failed to rebut said presumption by the greater weight of the evidence, an”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“When a motion is made to modify the child support provisions of a separation agreement which has not previously been incorporated into an order or judgment of the court, the court is called upon, for the first time, to exercise its authority to see that the reasonable needs of the child are provided for commensurate with the abilities of those responsible for the child's support.... [T]he moving party's only burden is to show the amount of support necessary to meet the reasonable needs of the child at the time of the hearing.”
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.