101 Ga. App. 724 - Covington v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2001
6 federal appellate · 7 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 73 Ga. App. 494 - Evans v. Henson · Hollander v. Wilson Estate Co. · Reed v. White · 87 Ga. App. 460 - Plaza Hotel Co. v. Fine Products Corp. · 38 Ga. App. 428 - Capital Wall Paper Co. v. Callan Court Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]ince contracts must be construed according to the intention of the parties at the time of their execution it will not be presumed that parties intend to contract away their legal rights in regard to a subject matter not clearly appearing therein.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.