451 So. 2d 314 - King v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 49 Ala. App. 658 - Borsdorf v. Mills · Ely v. Casteel · 416 So. 2d 1075 - Vinson v. AGAPE of Central Alabama, Inc. · 418 So. 2d 913 - Hudgins v. State · 444 So. 2d 858 - Matter of Rivera
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Before a trial court can terminate a parent's right to custody of its child, there must be clear and convincing evidence before the court that it would not be in the child's best interests to be in the natural parent's custody.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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