143 Ga. App. 407 - Mullis v. Bone’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 1999
13 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 Jernigan v. Collier · 134 Ga. App. 137 - Jernigan v. Collier · 124 Ga. App. 847 - Cherry v. Gilbert · 116 Ga. App. 297 - Munn v. Munn
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although our legal tradition places a premium on fairness, litigation still involves an adversary system. The burden of ascertaining the proper party to be substituted for a deceased litigant is properly placed on the party who would effect the substitution. We hold, therefore, that ". . . a statement of the fact of the death . . ." which includes the name of the deceased and the date of death is a sufficient suggestion of death . . . to trigger the 180-day period allowed . . . for filing a motion for substitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]t seems quite basic and reasonable that a plaintiff's attorney who receives notification of the defendant's death has the responsibility to promptly initiate the necessary inquiries to determine the identity of a person to be substituted for the deceased defendant, and to file a motion for substitution in accordance with our Rules of Civil Procedure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . . a statement of the fact of the death . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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