132 Ga. App. 248 - Souchak v. Close’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2003
13 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 Rivers v. Cole Corporation · Whittaker Chain Tread Co. v. Standard Auto Supply Co. · Dixie Belle Mills, Inc. v. Specialty MacHine Co. · Rosenblatt v. Holstein Rubber Co. · 110 Ga. App. 505 - Thompson v. Hecht
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Georgia, the general rule on accord and satisfaction is that “if a debtor remits to the creditor a sum of money, less than the amount actually due, upon the condition, either express or implied, that it is in satisfaction of the creditor’s claim, and the latter accepts and retains the money an accord and satisfaction results, and this is true whether the demand be liquidated or unliquidated, disputed or undisputed.” Dixie Belle Mills v. Specialty & Co., 217 Ga. 104, 107 , 120 S.E.2d 771, 774 .”
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.