113 Ga. App. 540 - Cole v. Cates’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 1997 · most notably Cochran v. Murrah (1975), 130 Ga. App. 194 - Walsh v. Campbell (1973)
12 federal appellate · 15 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 Lewis v. Foy · Eaton v. Eaton · Dover v. Burns · Jekshewitz v. Groswald · Truitt-Silvey Hat Co. v. Callaway & Truitt
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[O.C.G.A. § 23-2-58] does not attempt to comprehensively enumerate the cases wherein the relation of mutual confidence is , present_ The showing of a relationship in fact which justifies the reposing of confidence by one party in another is all the law requires. [O.C.G.A. § 23-2-53] expressly goes beyond the strict fiduciary relations of the parties and states that the obligation to communicate may arise ‘from the particular circumstances of the case.’ The same is true of [O.C.G.A. § 23-2-58].””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“one cannot claim to be defrauded by the false representation of another where, by the exercise of ordinary diligence, such person could have discovered the falsity of the representations before acting thereon .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`In seeking to choose between a fraudfeasor and a negligent party, the Georgia law unfortunately goes with the alleged crook.' Cole v. Cates, 113 Ga.App. 540, 545, 149 S.E.2d 165, 169.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Hannah v. Belger
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.