9 N.C. App. 681 - Tate v. Tate’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2011
24 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 Crosby v. Crosby
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Venue.An action or proceeding in the courts of this State for custody and support of a minor child may be maintained in the county where the child resides or is physically present or in a county where a parent resides, except as hereinafter provided. If an action for ... divorce ... has been previously instituted in this State, until there has been a final judgment in such case, any action or proceeding for custody and support of the minor children of the marriage shall be joined with such action or be by motion in the cause in such action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Venue. An action or proceeding in the courts of this State for . . . support of a minor child may be maintained in the county where the child resides ... or in the county where a parent resides, except as hereinafter provided. If an action ... for divorce . . . has been previously instituted in this State, until there has been a final judgment in such case, any action or proceeding for . . . support of the minor children of the marriage shall be ... by motion in the cause in such action. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not only venue but actually jurisdiction.”
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.