139 Ga. App. 68 - Mathis v. Copeland’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 2003
5 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.
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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.
“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 passagee.g. Imran v. Bone
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