113 Ga. App. 179 - Covil v. Stansell’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1990
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 Swint v. Smith · Clark v. Newsome · City of Chamblee v. Village of North Atlanta
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.
“Under the decision of the Supreme Court in Clark v. Newsome, 180 Ga. 97 ( 178 SE 386 ), a plaintiff who has had his action dismissed other than on the merits may refile within six months under Code § 3-808 where the original action was not barred by the statute of limitation.”
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.