Fulghum v. Paul’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2017
16 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 83 Ga. App. 280 - Binford v. Reid
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“acting upon the proposed name change and in carrying out its duty of acting in the best interests of the child as parens patriae.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to prescribe what notice, if any, is required prior to the court's action upon a petition for change of name.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[N]o one has a property right in another's name including the parent of a minor 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.