107 Ga. App. 397 - Feldman v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently July 2015
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 71 Ga. App. 184 - Wilson v. Maryland Casualty Co. · 95 Ga. App. 23 - Fletcher v. Aetna Casualty & Surety 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““State Board of Workmen’s Compensation has authority to examine and approve contracts between claimants and their counsel as to the amount of attorneys fees but it has no authority ... to examine and approve contracts between attorneys as to the division of their fees when associated to represent claimants. The only contracts before the Board were the contracts between Edwards and the claimants and such were the only contracts that the board could examine.” (Citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The State Board of [Workers’] Compensation has authority to examine and approve contracts between claimants and their counsel as to the amount of [attorney] fees but it has no authority, statutory or otherwise, to set the fees of the attorneys, or to examine and approve contracts between attorneys as to the division of their fees when associated to represent claimants.”
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.