91 N.C. App. 668 - Clark v. Williamson’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
157 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 157 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably 143 N.C. App. 402 - In Re McMillon (2001), 162 N.C. App. 215 - In Re Shepard (2004)
157 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 Montgomery · Matter of Ballard · Vassey v. Burch · Matter of Moore · Daniels v. Montgomery Mutual Insurance
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 157 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are supported by ample, competent evidence, they are binding on appeal, even though there may be evidence to the contrary.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage“as follows: 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.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“Once [the petitioner] has met its burden of proof in showing the existence of one of the grounds for termination, . . . the decision of whether to terminate parental rights is within the trial court's discretion.”
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.