188 Ga. App. 879 - Doe v. Chambers’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2018
16 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 Blackburn v. Blackburn · In Re Baby Girl Eason · Githens v. Githens · 180 Ga. App. 849 - In Re SEH · 179 Ga. App. 155 - Jordan v. Jordan
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In such a case, the parent is entitled to custody of the child unless the third party shows by clear and convincing evidence that the parent is unfit.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“has not abandoned his opportunity interest, the standard which must be used to determine his right to legitimate the child is his fitness ... to have custody of the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“then vigorously pursued his opportunity ... to establish his parental relationship.”
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.