Branch v. Branch’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently September 2018
5 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 Gaston v. Shunk Plow Co. · Briesnick v. Briesnick · Stokes v. Stokes · Hortman v. Georgia Board of Dental Examiners · Lee v. Lee
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Ga. Code. Ann.] § 24-105 does not require a jury trial in the situation here where the respondent is cited for refusing to pay an alimony judgment[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the respondent in contempt proceedings is not entitled to a trial by jury except where a jury trial is expressly provided by statute.”
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.