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In Re TW’s Empirical Analysis

2005

Citation profile

24
cited by 24 later decisions
1
states following
July 2009
most recently cited

24 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Troxel v. Granville · Corum v. University of North Carolina · Owenby v. Young · 157 N.C. App. 513 - In Re Estes · In Re BM

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

  1. “[w]hile [r]espondent-[m]other may have been competent for some purposes, including her ability to perform routine tasks and maintain employment, it does not necessarily follow that she is not debilitated by her mental health issues when it comes to parenting her children.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “mental instability and her incapacity to raise her minor children were central factors in the court's decision”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[T]he need to show prejudice diminishes as the delay between [a termination of parental rights hearing] and the date of entry of the order terminating parental rights increases. At more than ten times the permissible time for entry of the order, the need to show prejudice . . . is necessarily diminished exponentially.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

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