124 Ga. App. 775 - Spivey v. Mayson’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably 132 Ga. App. 714 - Bituminous Casualty Corp. v. J. B. Forrest & Sons, Inc. (1974), 136 Ga. App. 308 - Brown v. Fulton County Department of Family & Children Services (1975)
73 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 Garrison v. Perkins
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[L]ike the findings of a jury, or of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, they are binding on appeal and unless wholly unsupported or clearly erroneous will not afford a'basis for reversal.” In short, this is the so-called”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'The statute... explicitly requires the findings and”
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.