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In Re SN’s Empirical Analysis

2008

Citation profile

35
cited by 35 later decisions
1
states following
August 2019
most recently cited

35 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on In Re the Appeal From the Civil Penalty · Koufman v. Koufman · 142 N.C. App. 607 - In Re Blackburn · 123 N.C. App. 434 - Matter of Oghenekevebe · Clark v. Clark

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

  1. “The standard of appellate review is whether the trial court's findings of fact are supported by clear, cogent, and convincing evidence and whether the findings of fact support the conclusions of law.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “[t]he trial court's conclusions of law are fully reviewable de novo by the appellate court.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  3. “Termination of parental rights is a two-step process. In the first phase of the termination hearing, the petitioner must show by clear, cogent and convincing evidence that a statutory ground to terminate exists.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.