82 N.C. App. 289 - Adkins v. Adkins’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably 99 N.C. App. 380 - Hartsell v. Hartsell (1990), 187 N.C. App. 55 - Watson v. Watson (2007)
45 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 Mauney v. Mauney · 77 N.C. App. 808 - McMiller v. McMiller · 46 N.C. App. 332 - Teachey v. Teachey · 10 N.C. App. 476 - Cox v. Cox · 34 N.C. App. 201 - Lindsey v. Lindsey
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Review in [civil] contempt proceedings is limited to whether there is competent evidence to support the findings of fact and whether the findings support the conclusions of law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he standard is not having property free and clear of any liens, but rather that one has the present means to comply with the court order and hence to purge oneself of the contempt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Reasonable measures may well include liquidating equity in encumbered assets.”
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.