136 N.C. App. 831 - In Re Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
25 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Anders v. California · United Biscuit Co. of America v. Federal Trade Commission · State v. Kinch · State ex rel. A.R. & C.P. v. C.R. · Denise H. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The burden of proof required to terminate a parent's rights, although greater than that required for an ordinary civil proceeding, is still less than that required to convict a person of a crime. The requirement that a person accused of a crime be found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt is based on the common law presumption of innocence. The statutory burden of proof for a severance proceeding, on the other hand, is required by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Thus, the burdens of proof are neither `very similar' nor do they derive from the same source.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n attorney for a criminal defendant who believes that his client's appeal is without merit . . . to file what has become known as an Anders brief.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“to determine whether the evidence supports the trial court's findings of fact and conclusions of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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