Bales v. Lowery’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hutto v. Hutto · Alvarez v. Sills · Douglas v. Douglas
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“such person has lost the right to custody through one of the ways recognized in OCGA §§ 19-7-1 and 19-7-4, or through unfitness”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Oni v. Oni.
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.