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In Re LOK’s Empirical Analysis

2005

Citation profile

33
cited by 33 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited

32 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Koufman v. Koufman · Matter of Ballard · Futuresource, LLC v. Reuters Ltd. · 140 N.C. App. 288 - In Re Huff · Matter of Huff

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

  1. “In those circumstances, a trial court may find that grounds for termination exist upon a showing of a history of neglect by the parent and the probability of a repetition of neglect.”
    21 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[i]n deciding whether a child is neglected for purposes of terminating parental rights, the dispositive question is the fitness of the parent to care for the child at the time of the termination proceeding.”
    15 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[T]he Rules of Civil Procedure apply only when they do not conflict with the Juvenile Code and only to the extent that the Rules advance the purposes of the legislature as expressed in the Juvenile Code.”
    4 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.