Cothran v. Cothran’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2012
13 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 Perkins v. Courson · Triplett v. Elder · Williams v. Ferrell
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] superior court judge, upon hearing a divorce and child custody case, does not have jurisdiction to terminate parental rights.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Except as provided in subsection (b) of this Code section [involving criminal jurisdiction], the [juvenile] court shall have exclusive original jurisdiction over juvenile matters and shall be the sole court for initiating action . . . [i]nvolving any proceedings . . . [f]or the termination of the legal parent-child relationship . . . other than that in connection with adoption proceedings under Chapter 8 of Title 19, in which the superior courts shall have concurrent jurisdiction to terminate the legal parent-child relationship and the rights of the biological father. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. Taylor
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.