122 Ga. App. 720 - Dodd v. Newton’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently July 2000
8 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 Thornton v. Lane · Thompson v. Eastern Air Lines Inc. · Hertz v. Abrahams · 75 Ga. App. 663 - Mauldin v. Stogner · McDonald v. Napier
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hile the decisions of the United States Supreme Court are binding upon our Georgia appellate courts (citations omitted), those of other Federal courts are not binding upon the Georgia appellate courts. [Citations omitted.]” Dodd v. Newton, 122 Ga. App. 720, 723 ( 178 SE2d 567 ). 2. (a)”
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.