102 Ga. App. 341 - Hanson v. Stern’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1987
10 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 95 Ga. App. 4 - Jones v. Ely · 45 Ga. App. 31 - Tarbutton v. Duggan · Lowery Lock Co. v. Wright · Wood v. Phoenix Insurance Company · 68 Ga. App. 552 - Wall v. J. W. Starr & Sons Lumber 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Williston’s second secondary rule is that 'an interpretation which makes the contract or agreement lawful will be preferred over one which would make it unlawful’; and that 'an interpretation which renders the contract or agreement valid and its performance possible will be preferred to one which makes it void or its performance impossible or meaningless...’ 3 Williston on Contracts (1936) § 620, p. 1785 et seq.” Hanson v. Stern, supra at 343.”
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.