84 N.C. App. 471 - Geer v. Geer’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably 97 N.C. App. 77 - Miller v. Miller (1990), 90 N.C. App. 72 - Mishler v. Mishler (1988)
47 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 · Smith v. Smith · Marriage of DeLa Rosa v. DeLa Rosa
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Regardless of who is legally obligated for the debt, for the purpose of an equitable distribution, a marital debt is defined as a debt incurred during the marriage for the joint benefit of the parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]ny direct or indirect contribution made by one spouse to help educate ... the other spouse.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he court is required to consider the liabilities of each party when making an equitable distribution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dalton v. Dalton
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.