124 Ga. App. 241 - Lockhart v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 1997
9 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 Watkins v. Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance · 117 Ga. App. 720 - Shadix v. Dowdney · 120 Ga. App. 4 - Central of Georgia Railway Company v. Hawes · 117 Ga. App. 693 - Brown v. Iocovozzi · 121 Ga. App. 214 - Massey v. Hilton Heights Park, 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The burden of showing the absence of a genuine issue of any material fact rests on the party moving for summary judgment; no duty devolves upon the opposing party to produce rebuttal evidence unless the movant first makes a prima facie showing of right to a summary judgment. Lockhart v. Walker, 124 Ga. App. 241 , 183 S.E.2d 503 (1971).”
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.