125 Ga. App. 642 - Knowles v. Knowles’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Matter of Estate of Tollefsrud (1979), 155 Ga. App. 189 - Montgomery v. USS Agri-Chemical Division (1980)
3 federal appellate · 36 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 Betts v. Brown · Farris v. Battle · Winn v. Lunsford · Goss v. Harris · Smith v. Smith
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Such a case must be tried anew as if no trial had been had. [Citations.] It is not the province of the superior court on such an appeal to review and affirm or review the rulings of the [trial tribunal], but to try the issue anew and pass original judgments on the questions involved as if there had been no previous trial.’Hall v. First Nat. Bank of Atlanta, 85 Ga. App. 498 ( 69 SE2d 679 ).” (Emphasis supplied.) Knowles v. Knowles, 125 Ga. App. 642, 645 (1) ( 188 SE2d 800 ).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“brings up the whole record from the court below; and all competent evidence shall be admissible on the trial thereof, whether adduced on a former trial or not. Either party is entitled to be heard on the whole merits of the case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“payment of proceeds of credit life insurance inures to the benefit of the insured”
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.