Galloway v. Galloway’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Joiner Ex Rel. Rivas v. Rivas (2000), Harper v. Caskin (1979)
33 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 Caughman v. Caughman · Cumbie v. Cumbie · Cribbs v. Floyd · Jackson v. Walters · Varser v. Smith
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The duty to protect the rights of minors has precedence over procedural rules otherwise limiting the scope of review and matters affecting the rights of minors can be considered by this court ex mero motu.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It has been broadly stated that under adoption proceedings there are four interested parties: (1) The minor child; (2) the parents or those standing in place of the parents; (3) the party seeking to adopt; and (4) the state. Undoubtedly, the person standing highest in interest is the child, and when adopted its status for life is entirely changed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harper v. Caskin
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.