Gay v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “}T]o constitute . . . abandonment . . ., there must be an actual desertion, accompanied with an intention to entirely sever, so far as it is possible to do so, the parental relation, and throw off all obligations growing out of the same.”
• “[T]o constitute . . . 19 abandonment . . ., there must be an actual desertion, accompanied with an intention 8 1 to entirely sever, so far as it is possible to do so, the parental relation, and throw off 2 all obligations growing out of the same.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Glendinning v. McComas
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1939-06-17· cited 51×
• Harrison v. Harker
  Utah Supreme Court· 1914-03-27· cited 30×
• Phelps v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1911-11-07· cited 25×
• Johnson v. Strickland
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1953-05-27· cited 21×
• McComas v. Glendinning
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1938-11-16· cited 19×
• State v. Clark
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1921-04-08· cited 19×
• Blackwell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1934-01-10· cited 14×
• Bailey v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1958-09-05· cited 13×
• Curtis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1933-12-18· cited 12×
• Brock v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1935-06-19· cited 12×
• State v. Townsend
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1961-03-17· cited 8×
• State v. Wilson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1980-01-23· cited 7×
• Brock v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1925-01-16· cited 7×
• Weltzbarker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1954-03-11· cited 6×
• State v. Stephenson
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2015-01-26· cited 6×
• State v. Pitzel
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1966-12-29· cited 5×
• People v. Fitzgerald
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1915-04-09· cited 5×
• In re Snowball's Estate
  California Supreme Court· 1909-08-30· cited 5×
• Glad v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1952-02-19· cited 4×
• Beasley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1936-11-18· cited 4×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1879-10-15· cited 30×
• McDaniel v. Campbell
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1886-11-09· cited 22×
• Jemmerson v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1888-02-13· cited 22×
• Bennefield v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1888-01-09· cited 20×
• Bull v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1888-04-27· cited 17×
• Crow v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1895-05-13· cited 3×