Garrett v. Garrett’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738A
Relies on Thompson v. Thompson · Wilson v. Gouse · 167 Ga. App. 406 - Osgood v. Dent · 218 Ga. App. 353 - Bergmann v. McCullough · 211 Ga. App. 195 - Williams v. Goss
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Alabama law allows the assertion of continuing jurisdiction made by the Alabama court and ... the Georgia court did not err in dismissing the Georgia action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garrett v. Garrett
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.