111 N.C. App. 85 - In Re Becker’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably 123 N.C. App. 434 - Matter of Oghenekevebe (1996), 162 N.C. App. 215 - In Re Shepard (2004)
33 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 Helms v. Rea · 67 N.C. App. 257 - Matter of Pierce · Dealers Specialties, Inc. v. Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc. · 57 N.C. App. 475 - Matter of Bradley · 77 N.C. App. 792 - Childers v. Hayes
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A finding of willfulness is not precluded even if the respondent has made some efforts to regain custody of the children.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“DSS did not need to provide detailed evidence of his ability to pay support during the relevant time period”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The parent has willfully left the child in foster care for more than 12 months without showing . . . that reasonable progress . . . has been made within 12 months in correcting those conditions which led to the removal of the child or without showing positive response within 12 months to the diligent efforts of a county Department of Social Services ....”
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.