117 N.C. App. 1 - Bost v. Van Nortwick’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably 140 N.C. App. 288 - In Re Huff (2000), In Re CLC (2005)
46 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 Matter of Montgomery · Matter of Ballard · Pratt v. Bishop · Petersen v. Rogers · 82 N.C. App. 273 - In Re Adoption of Searle
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`disobedience which imports knowledge and a stubborn resistance.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Our review of [the] respondent's inability to pay child support due to his dependency on alcohol and related financial problems does not support a finding of willful abandonment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“evince a settled purpose to forego all parental duties and relinquish all parental claims to the children.”
2 later decisions 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.