Alexander v. Guthrie’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2013
24 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 In Re Baby Girl Eason · Nix v. Department of Human Resources · Wilkins v. Department of Human Resources · In re S. N. S. · 212 Ga. App. 273 - Malin Trucking, Inc. v. Progressive Casualty Insurance
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A biological father who is not the legal father loses all rights to the child and the court shall enter an order terminating all such father's rights to the child and such father may not thereafter object to the termination of his rights to the child if within 30 days from his receipt of the notice [of the termination proceeding] he. . . [f]iles a legitimation petition and the action is subsequently concluded without a court order declaring a finding that he is the legal father of the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Js“was not entitled to have an attorney appointed to represent him at public expense in the legitimation proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Js
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.