159 N.C. App. 461 - In Re Stratton’s Empirical Analysis

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56 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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[w]henever, during the course of litigation it develops that the relief sought has been granted or that the questions originally in controversy between the parties are no longer at issue, the case should be dismissed, for courts will not entertain or proceed with a cause merely to determine abstract propositions of law.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re B.G. · 164 N.C. App. 743 - In Re VLB

2. “A case is `moot' when a determination is sought on a matter which, when rendered, cannot have any practical effect on the existing controversy.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. North v. McRae · 168 N.C. App. 595 - IN THE MATTER OF AK

3. “In short, Mr. Stratton has already received a new, independent adjudication of the neglect issue and any resolution of the issues raised on this appeal [from the order adjudicating the children as neglected and dependent] will have no practical effect on the existing controversy.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re JCS · In Re NB