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157 Ga. App. 533 - Coleman v. Coleman’s Empirical Analysis

1981

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
5
states following
July 2011
most recently cited

2 district · 16 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2011

2 district · 16 state decisions

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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 127 Ga. App. 719 - Eschen v. Roney · Bulloch v. Bulloch · 50 Ga. App. 241 - Chastain v. Chastain · 150 Ga. App. 408 - Maddox v. Queen

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

  1. “[A]lthough the basic family situation has been altered, . . . [t]here is accordingly a continued need for respect and the authority to discipline [due to a continuing parent-child relationship].”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “We have long held as a matter of public policy that an unemancipated minor may not sue a parent for injury arising from a negligent act.”
    1 later decision 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.