130 N.C. App. 389 - Ellison v. Ramos’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably T.B. v. L.R.M. (2001), 139 N.C. App. 222 - Brewer v. Brewer (2000)
44 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 Price v. Howard · Petersen v. Rogers · Maximus v. LOCKHEED INFO. MGMT. SYSTEMS · Pyco Supply Co. v. American Centennial Insurance · 79 N.C. App. 517 - Smith v. City of Charlotte
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that a relationship in the nature of a parent and child relationship, even in the absence of a biological relationship, will suffice to support a finding of standing.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Ms. Ellison’s relevant allegations were that she “is the only mother the minor child has known and [that] she has mothered the child” for the five years she and Mr. Ramos were intimately involved. Further, “after the parties separated, the minor child lived with [Ms. Ellison] and was cared for by [Ms. Ellison] until [Mr. Ramos] removed her from [Ms. Ellison]’s care and took her to Puerto Rico, where he left her with her maternal grandparents.” Finally, “during [Ms. Ellison] and [Mr. Ramos]’s relationship, [Ms. Ellison] was the responsible parent in the rearing and caring for the minor child, as she was the adult who took the minor child to her medical appointments, to school, attended teacher conferences, took the minor child for diabetic treatment and counseling, provided in-home medical care and treatment for her diabetes, taught her about caring [for] her diabetes, and bought all the child’s necessities, including clothing, school supplies, medical supplies, toys, books, etc.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“As we have consistently held, the policy behind notice pleading is to resolve controversies on the merits, after an opportunity for discovery, instead of resolving them based on the technicalities of pleading.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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