143 Ga. App. 337 - Holt v. Rickett’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably General Electric Credit Corp. v. Brooks (1978), Eiberger v. West (1981)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 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 Bank of Lumpkin v. Farmers State Bank · Strickland v. Williams · Perry v. Shelby · 112 Ga. App. 16 - Adair Realty & Loan Company v. Williams Brothers Lumber Company · Loganville Banking Co. v. Forrester
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The obligation to pay attorney fees is only a contingent liability and the debtor is not bound to pay them until there is a full compliance with conditions precedent stated in the statute.’ Holt v. Rickett, 143 Ga.App. 337 (1), 238 S.E.2d 706 (1977). Direction of a verdict against the bank on the $1,500 attorney fee item was proper.” Citizens & Southern National Bank v. Bougas, supra, 256 S.E.2d at 41 .”
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.