178 Ga. App. 316 - Brown v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 2013
18 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 157 Ga. App. 533 - Coleman v. Coleman · 150 Ga. App. 408 - Maddox v. Queen · 156 Ga. App. 130 - Trotter v. Ashbaugh · 175 Ga. App. 438 - Congleton v. Starlite Skate Center, Inc. · 175 Ga. App. 820 - Walkley v. Dukes
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.
“in their role as foster parents selected and approved by DFCS, to discharge the duties of the parental relationship by receiving [foster children] into their home and caring for [them] as if [they] had been their own child. [Cit.]”
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.