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1977

Citation profile

37
cited by 37 later decisions
1
states following
November 2014
most recently cited

6 federal appellate · 25 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2014 · most notably 146 Ga. App. 769 - Bible v. Hughes (1978), Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance v. City of Claxton, Georgia (1983)

6 federal appellate · 25 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 134 Ga. App. 778 - Childs v. Catlin · 125 Ga. App. 423 - Hilton v. Maddox, Bishop, Hayton Frame & Trim Contractors, Inc. · 129 Ga. App. 875 - Railey v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. · 135 Ga. App. 787 - Clarkson Industries, Inc. v. Price · 135 Ga. App. 40 - Hutchins v. Hunter

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

  1. “whether the plaintiff showed that he acted in a reasonable and diligent manner in attempting to ensure that a proper service was made as quickly as possible.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[t]he trial judge must determine, exercising a legal discretion, whether the plaintiff was diligent in his efforts. [Cits.]”
    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.