129 Ga. App. 625 - Blakely v. Couch’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 2004 · most notably Welsh v. Gerber Products, Inc. (1989), Boozer v. Higdon (1984)
23 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 Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Estate J Bosch Second National Bank of New Haven · 115 Ga. App. 265 - Smith v. Wood · Sumner v. Sumner · 61 Ga. App. 223 - Roadway Express Inc. v. McBroom · 61 Ga. App. 149 - Blakewood v. Yellow Cab Company
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.
“The motivating reason is succinctly stated thusly: `. . . because it is unjust to bind one by any proceeding in which he had no opportunity to make a defense, to offer evidence, to cross-examine witnesses, or to appeal, if he was dissatisfied with the judgment.' [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[o]ur ruling here of course in no way limits the binding effect between the participating litigants of consent verdicts and judgment based thereon.”
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.