142 Ga. App. 649 - Webb v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
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
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.
“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“[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.