141 N.C. App. 340 - Cantrell v. Wishon’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
30
cited by 30 later decisions
1
states following
March 2017
most recently cited
30 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lehr v. Robertson · Price v. Howard · Petersen v. Rogers · 134 N.C. App. 82 - Buckingham v. Buckingham · 134 N.C. App. 460 - Sain v. Sain
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] parent may lose the constitutionally protected paramount right to child custody if the parent's conduct is inconsistent with this presumption or if the parent fails to shoulder the responsibilities that are attendant to rearing a child.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[P]arents have a constitutionally protected right to the custody, care and control of their child, absent a showing of unfitness to care for the child.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In determining whether the mother acted inconsistently with her protected status, the Court considered a number of other issues: Whether her relinquishment of custody was intended to be temporary or permanent; whether her behavior had created the family unit that existed between the plaintiff and the child; and the degree of custodial, personal and financial contact between her and her child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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