254 Ga. App. 172 - Smith v. Soligon’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
25
cited by 25 later decisions
2
states following
October 2018
most recently cited
25 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In Re Baby Girl Eason · 219 Ga. App. 415 - Ghrist v. Fricks · 217 Ga. App. 368 - Turner v. Wright · Davis v. LaBrec · Alexander v. Guthrie
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must initially determine whether the father has abandoned his opportunity interest to develop a relationship with the child.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he court must initially determine whether the father has abandoned his opportunity interest to develop a relationship with the child. Then, depending on the nature of the putative father's relationship with the child and other surrounding circumstances, the standard for evaluating whether legitimation is appropriate is either a test of his fitness as a parent or the best interest of the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re MK
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.