179 Ga. App. 346 - In Re NFR’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2003 · most notably 226 Ga. App. 303 - In the Interest of K. J. (1997), 201 Ga. App. 173 - In the Interest of J. M. C. (1991)
29 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 Nix v. Department of Human Resources · Wright v. Hanson · Bozeman v. Williams · 161 Ga. App. 163 - McCormick v. Department of Human Resources · 159 Ga. App. 758 - Harper v. Department of Human Resources
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] finding of unfitness must be based on present circumstances,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]his court has long recognized that termination of parental rights is a severe measure. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“likely to continue and likely to cause serious harm to the child.”
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.