97 N.C. App. 118 - Williams v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
October 2009
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 57 N.C. App. 650 - Anderson Chevrolet/Olds, Inc. v. Higgins · Church v. Hancock · Mullen v. Sawyer · Pieper v. Pieper · 36 N.C. App. 586 - Shaffner v. Shaffner
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a parent can assume contractual obligations to his child greater than the law otherwise imposes[,]... [i.e.,] a parent may expressly agree to support his child after emancipation and beyond majority, and such agreements are binding and enforceable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“law of the state where the obligor was present during the legally material times provided for in the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the period or any part of the period for which support is sought.”
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.