134 Ga. App. 778 - Childs v. Catlin’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably 146 Ga. App. 769 - Bible v. Hughes (1978), 142 Ga. App. 649 - Webb v. Murphy (1977)
61 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 Poullain v. Poullain · 125 Ga. App. 423 - Hilton v. Maddox, Bishop, Hayton Frame & Trim Contractors, Inc. · McFarland v. McFarland · Ballard v. Waites · 109 Ga. App. 698 - Parker v. Kilgo
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he correct test must be whether the plaintiff showed that he acted in a reasonable and diligent manner in attempting to insure that a proper service was made as quickly as possible . . . A reasonable rule must be that in such case the trial judge should look at all the facts involved and ascertain whether the plaintiff was in any way guilty of laches. If he were, of course he would be barred, but if he acted in a reasonably diligent manner then he would not be.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When service is to be made within this state, the person making such service shall make the service within five days from the time of receiving the summons and complaint; but failure to make service within the five-day period will not invalidate a later service.”
2 later decisions 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.