142 Ga. App. 442 - Hewatt v. Bonner’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 2018
4 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 106 Ga. App. 1 - Holland v. Sanfax Corporation · Summer-Minter & Associates, Inc. v. Giordano · Warren v. Walton · Drost v. Robinson · 109 Ga. App. 476 - Employees Retirement System v. Lewis
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] public officer . . . may not be hampered in the administration of. . . duties to the public by employee contracts. To the extent that such a contract may impede the [officer’s] responsibility to the public, the contract is unenforceable by the employee as being against public policy. [Cit.] [W]hile [the employee] could enforce that portion of the employment contract for which he had rendered service, the balance of the employment contract subsequent to [the employee’s] termination was unenforceable, and no right of recovery existed for compensation for the unenforceable portion of the period of employment. [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. Head
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.