150 Ga. App. 408 - Maddox v. Queen’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same · Moore v. City of East Cleveland · Village of Belle Terre v. Boraas
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[m]arriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“has assumed the status and obligations of a parent without a formal adoption,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.