93 N.C. App. 614 - Small v. Small’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2009
23 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 Veazey v. City of Durham · Lane v. Scarborough · Hagler v. Hagler · Matter of Estate of Adamee · 93 N.C. App. 20 - Davidson v. Knauff Insurance Agency, Inc.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ontracts between husband and wife not inconsistent with public policy are valid....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`a contract between spouses providing for marital support rights and ... executed while the parties are separated or are planning to separate immediately.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he heart of a separation agreement is the parties' intention and agreement to live separate and apart forever....”
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.