113 Ga. App. 96 - Chambliss v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Felix v. State (1999), 116 Ga. App. 814 - Farm Supply Co. of Albany, Inc. v. Cook (1967)
44 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 Bearden Mercantile Co. v. Madison Oil Co. · Phinizy v. Bush · 28 Ga. App. 394 - Willingham, Wright & Covington v. Glover · Saco Dairy Co. v. Norton · Chance v. Planters Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an agent who makes a contract without disclosing that he is acting as an agent or without identifying his principal, or an agent who makes a contract with the express or implied understanding with the other party that he is binding himself individually, will become individually liable on the contract. 3”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It matters not by what name any pleading is called, the court will look to the substance rather than to the name. It is elementary that a misnomer of proceedings does not prevail over the substance.” Waller v. Morris, 78 Ga. App. 821, 822 ( 52 SE2d 583 ); Chambliss v. Hall, 113 Ga. App. 96, 97 ( 147 SE2d 334 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“speedy and uniform justice in a uniform and well-ordered manner; ... not ... to set traps and pitfalls by way of technicalities for unwary litigants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Felix v. State
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.