Burton v. Furcron

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “Where children are involved in the granting of a divorce decree, it is the duty of the trial judge to award their custody.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

24 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Perry v. Perry
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1958-02-07· cited 29×
• Connell v. Connell
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1966-11-23· cited 28×
• Anthony v. Anthony
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1956-05-14· cited 22×
• Martin v. Hendon
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1968-04-04· cited 22×
• Goodloe v. Goodloe
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1955-10-13· cited 21×
• Hunnicutt v. Sandison
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1967-04-06· cited 18×
• Stanton v. Stanton
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1957-10-11· cited 18×
• Broome v. Broome
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1956-01-09· cited 13×
• Young v. Pearce
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1956-11-17· cited 13×
• Stout v. Pate
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1953-04-14· cited 12×
• Palmer v. Bunn
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1962-09-06· cited 11×
• Gibbs v. North
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1954-11-08· cited 10×
• Hanson v. Stegall
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1951-10-10· cited 10×
• Evans v. Allen
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1956-02-14· cited 8×
• Buck v. Buck
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-03-10· cited 8×
• Taylor v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-02-18· cited 7×
• McAfee v. Martin
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1954-09-13· cited 5×
• Chumley v. Irwin
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1957-10-11· cited 4×
• Puckett v. Puckett
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1966-10-20· cited 4×
• Carr v. Frier
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1974-09-17· cited 4×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Willingham v. Willingham
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1941-06-16· cited 62×
• Barlow v. Barlow
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1914-04-17· cited 22×
• Hardy v. Pennington
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1939-02-16· cited 21×
• Scott v. Scott
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1922-12-15· cited 18×
• Banda v. Banda
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1941-04-15· cited 12×
• Haire v. McCarele
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1899-06-02· cited 9×
• Oetter v. Oetter
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1920-04-15· cited 9×