In Re Leftwich’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 143 N.C. App. 402 - In Re McMillon (2001), 147 N.C. App. 349 - In Re Nesbitt (2001)
30 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 Matter of Ballard · In Re Young
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A juvenile who does not receive proper care, supervision, or discipline from the juvenile’s parent, guardian, custodian, or caretaker; or who has been abandoned; or who is not provided necessary medical care; or who is not provided necessary remedial care; or who lives in an environment injurious to the juvenile’s welfare; or who has been placed for care or adoption in violation of law ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“made any meaningful progress in eliminating the conditions that led to the removal of [the] children.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Once the court has determined that grounds for terminating parental rights are present, the court then `moves to the disposition stage to determine whether it is in the best interests of the child to terminate the parental rights.'" In re Leftwich, 135 N.C.App. 67, 71 , 518 S.E.2d 799, 802 (1999) (quoting In re Young, 346 N.C. 244, 247 , 485 S.E.2d 612, 615 (1997)). The trial court's decision to terminate parental rights is reviewed on an abuse of discretion standard. See In re Brim, 139 N.C.App. 733, 745 , 535 S.E.2d 367, 374 (2000); see also In re Allred, 122 N.C.App. at 569 , 471 S.E.2d at 88 .”
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.