94 N.C. App. 670 - Rawls v. Rawls’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2016
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 Coble v. Coble · Beall v. Beall · Plott v. Plott · 84 N.C. App. 471 - Geer v. Geer · 81 N.C. App. 71 - Boyd v. Boyd
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.
“The court found that the parties had acquired no marital property, and therefore concluded that there was no estate to be adjusted pursuant to N.C. Gen.Stat. § 50-20(c).... In reaching this conclusion the trial court neglected, however, to consider the debts incurred by the parties during their marriage. Debt, as well as assets, must be classified as marital or separate property. In effectuating an equitable distribution the trial court must consider the parties' debts. If it finds that a particular debt is marital, that is, a debt incurred during the marriage for the joint benefit of the parties, it possesses discretion to equitably apportion or distribute the debt between the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“retroactive child support payments are recoverable for amounts actually expended on the child's behalf....”
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.