90 N.C. App. 58 - Beightol v. Beightol’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably 102 N.C. App. 199 - Atkins v. Atkins (1991), 161 N.C. App. 414 - Fitzgerald v. Fitzgerald (2003)
54 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 · 81 N.C. App. 159 - Lawing v. Lawing · 68 N.C. App. 548 - Alexander v. Alexander · 76 N.C. App. 134 - Cable v. Cable
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) to determine which property is marital property, (2) to calculate the net value of the property, fair market value less encumbrances, and (3) to distribute the property in an equitable manner.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The distribution of marital property is vested in the discretion of the trial courts and the exercise of that discretion will not be upset absent clear abuse.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Accordingly, the findings of fact are conclusive if they are supported by any competent evidence from the record.”
3 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.