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← 139 Ga. App. 68 - Mathis v. Copeland

139 Ga. App. 68 - Mathis v. Copeland’s Empirical Analysis

1976

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
February 2003
most recently cited

5 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 2003

5 state decisions

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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 82 Ga. App. 779 - Studebaker Corporation v. Nail

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Where a party sues for specific damages he has the burden of showing the amount of loss claimed in such a way that the jury may calculate the amount of loss from the data furnished and will not be placed in a position where an allowance of the loss is based on guesswork. (Citation and punctuation omitted.) Mathis v. Copeland, 139 Ga. App. 68, 69 ( 228 SE2d 23 ) (1976). 4”
    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.