124 Ga. App. 394 - Smith v. Singleton’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 1997
17 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 117 Ga. App. 699 - Braswell v. American National Bank · Moody v. Nides Finance Co. · Richardson v. C. I. T. Corp. · 121 Ga. App. 649 - Steelman v. Associates Discount Corp.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is settled law in this state that the usury statutes are inapplicable to a retail instalment contract as here shown, which included a stated `Finance Charge' or `Time Charge' or `Time Price Diff.' added to the cash balance to arrive at a `Time Balance' payable in monthly instalments.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The Retail Instalment and Home Solicitation Sales Act”
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.