92 N.C. App. 274 - Adams v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2015
12 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 · Williams v. Williams · 66 N.C. App. 522 - Mayer v. Mayer · Crutchley v. Crutchley · Crutchley v. Crutchley
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“monthly gross income and his reasonable living expenses, coupled with the findings as to [the dependent spouse's] monthly income and her expenses during the last year of the marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he statute does not require a specifically articulated finding on the subject [of accustomed standard of living].”
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.