Bowers v. Mears Motor Livery Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• acknowledging that a finding of neglect may not be “predicated on nothing more than a single snapshot of the family’s existence”
• upholding finding of neglect based on “substantial risks of serious harm,” where, for extended period, home was filled with human fecal matter, roaches, rotting food, and other garbage, and gas oven was left on with door open, while children played nearby
• “intervention may be justified by danger to the physical or emotional health of a child, or the significant threat thereto”
• “[E]vidence that the parent had ... sufficient financial resources ... could take the form of evidence that the parent was receiving or was eligible to receive public assistance.”
• “A snapshot may be vivid and evocative, and sometimes it may suffice, but usually it is an unsatisfactory basis on which to make the important judgments required in a neglect proceeding.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).