149 N.C. App. 224 - Barger v. Barger’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
September 2004
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. Organization of Foster Families for Equality & Reform · Quilloin v. Walcott · Price v. Howard · Petersen v. Rogers · Adams v. Tessener
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the government may take a child away from his or her natural parent only upon a showing that the parent is unfit to have custody . . . .”
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.