194 Ga. App. 365 - Brooks v. Carson’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2019
13 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 · Nix v. Department of Human Resources · Carvalho v. Lewis · Chapin v. Cummings · 155 Ga. App. 38 - Shover 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the law tolerates the natural concern of a relative of the child, it naturally abhors interference between parent and child by third parties who are no relation”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Oni v. Oni.“not have a right to challenge the father's right to custody in favor of herself, or to do anything to promote her own interests and rights, for she has none”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Oni v. Oni.
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.