217 Ga. App. 368 - Turner v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably 273 Ga. App. 468 - In Re Lg (2005), 234 Ga. App. 257 - In the Interest of D. A. P. (1998)
38 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 · 203 Ga. App. 522 - In the Interest of L. F. · Chandler v. Cochran · 188 Ga. App. 879 - Doe v. Chambers
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Georgia law is well settled that [appellant] cannot object to the natural consequences brought about by [her] own voluntary commission of criminal acts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“must initially determine whether the father has abandoned his opportunity interest to develop a relationship with the child.”
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
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.