103 Ga. App. 7 - Ritchie v. Dillon’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 1996
8 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 Jones v. Jones · 75 Ga. App. 738 - Allen v. Morgan · 99 Ga. App. 785 - Hendrix v. Hunter · 86 Ga. App. 273 - Murray v. Woodford
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“except as otherwise specified in the following subsections, no adoption shall be permitted except with the written consent of the living parents of a child. Said consent, when given freely, voluntarily, may not be revoked by the parents as a matter of right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Duncan v. Harden
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.