50 N.C. App. 332 - In Re Biggers’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently December 2004 · most notably Rhyne v. K-Mart Corp. (2004), 147 N.C. App. 349 - In Re Nesbitt (2001)
48 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 Reed v. Reed · McKeiver v. Pennsylvania · United States v. Petrillo · Morey v. Doud · Coble v. Coble
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘A statute which either forbids or requires the doing of an act in terms so vague that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application violates the first essential of due process of law.’ (Citations omitted.) Even so, impossible standards of statutory clarity are not required by the constitution. When the language of a statute provides an adequate warning as to the conduct it condemns and prescribes boundaries sufficiently distinct for judges and juries to interpret and administer it uniformly, constitutional requirements are fully met. (Citation omitted.)””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"(2) The parent has ... neglected the child. The child shall be deemed ... neglected if the court finds the child to be ... a neglected child within the meaning of G.S. 7A-517(21). .... (4) The child has been placed in the custody of a county department of social services ... and the parent, for a continuous period of six months next preceding the filing of the petition, has failed to pay a reasonable portion of the cost of care for the child."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(21) Neglected Juvenile. A juvenile who does not receive proper care, supervision, or discipline from his parent ... or who has been abandoned; or who is not provided necessary medical care or other remedial care recognized under State law, or who lives in an environment injurious to his welfare”
3 later decisions 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.