144 N.C. App. 187 - In Re Eckard’s Empirical Analysis

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10 state decisions

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

1. “(1) Such efforts clearly would be futile or would be inconsistent with the juvenile’s health, safety, and need for a safe, permanent home within a reasonable period of time; (2) A court of competent jurisdiction has determined that the parent has subjected the child to aggravated circumstances as defined in G.S. 7B-101; (3) A court of competent jurisdiction has terminated involuntarily the parental rights of the parent to another child of the parent; or (4) A court of competent jurisdiction has determined that: the parent has committed murder or voluntary' manslaughter of another child of the parent; has aided, abetted, attempted, conspired, or solicited to commit murder or voluntary manslaughter of the child or another child of the parent; or has committed a felony assault resulting in serious bodily injury to the child or another child of the parent.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 161 N.C. App. 475 - Everett v. Everett · 158 N.C. App. 473 - In Re Weiler

2. “All dispositional orders of the trial court in abuse, neglect and dependency hearings must contain findings of fact based upon the credible evidence presented at the hearing.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re KS · 183 N.C. App. 315 - In re K.S.

3. “(1) Respondent has had relationships with five different men in the two years preceding the hearing, (2) respondent is “gullible and naive,” (3) respondent would require “ongoing assistance from professionals for a number of reasons,” with “no guarantees that she would [not] form questionable relationships, which could put her daughter at risk,” (4) respondent has an I.Q. “which ranks in the extremely low range,” (5) “[the juvenile] is too bonded to her current placement [with her foster parents] to risk her young and fragile well-being at this time” and (6) respondent did not do more to protect [the juvenile].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 158 N.C. App. 473 - In Re Weiler