Fender v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably 156 Ga. App. 425 - Ballenger Corp. v. Dresco Mechanical Contractors, Inc. (1980), Ellis v. Millen Hotel Co. (1941)
28 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 Traders Insurance v. Mann · Tift v. Towns · Georgia Railroad & Banking Co. v. Gardner
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is no law by which every case brought by a plaintiff can be turned into a damage suit by the defendant against the plaintiff for bringing it, while it is still pending.” Fender v. Ramsey & Phillips, 131 Ga. 440, 443 ( 62 SE 527 ). See Ellis v. Millen Hotel Co., 192 Ga. 66, 70 (2) ( 14 SE2d 565 ); Wallace v. Jones, 101 Ga. App. 563 ( 114 SE2d 436 ); Terry v. Wonder Seal Co., 120 Ga. App. 423 (2, 3) ( 170 SE2d 745 ); Metro Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc. v. Pearce, 121 Ga. App. 835, 842 ( 175 SE2d 910 ). Metro Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc. v. Pearce, 121 Ga. App. 835, 841 , supra, held:”
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.