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← 130 N.C. App. 37 - Powers v. Powers

130 N.C. App. 37 - Powers v. Powers’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
April 2009
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 123 N.C. App. 434 - Matter of Oghenekevebe · Matter of Shue

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[a]ny juvenile less than 18 years of age whose parent . . . [c]reates or allows to be created serious emotional damage to the juvenile; serious emotional damage is evidenced by a juvenile's severe anxiety, depression, withdrawal, or aggressive behavior toward himself or others[.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “`any evidence which is competent and relevant to a showing of the best interest of that child must be heard and considered by the trial court,'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “long-standing, acrimonious marital dispute”
    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.