122 Ga. App. 513 - Deacon v. Deacon’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 2013
3 federal appellate · 2 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 Mauldin v. Sheffer · Sutker v. Pennsylvania Insurance
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.
“To maintain an action in tort because of a breach of duty growing out of a contractual relation,, the breach must be shown to have been a breach of duty imposed by statute or a duty imposed by a recognized common law principle. [Cits.]” Deacon v. Deacon, 122 Ga. App. 513 ( 177 SE2d 719 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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