3 N.C. App. 390 - In Re McCraw Children’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably 52 N.C. App. 203 - Falls v. Falls (1981), 10 N.C. App. 457 - Brandon v. Brandon (1971)
36 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Hinkle v. Hinkle · Thomas v. Thomas
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'has been an excellent mother to her children[;] ... has been attentive to their health and needs and she has spent many hours playing with the children; she has taken them to Sunday School regularly; she has seen that they had friends to play with; she has regularly read to the children at bedtime'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'the relationship between the children and their mother has been and is excellent'”
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.