146 Ga. App. 139 - Christner v. Eason’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2011
19 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 117 Ga. App. 236 - Harper v. DeFreitas · Mitchell v. Dickey · 135 Ga. App. 540 - Seaboard Coast Line Railroad v. Dockery · 117 Ga. App. 356 - Gulf American Fire & Casualty Co. v. Harper
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`(T)he question here is whether the undisputed facts appearing from the pleadings show the defendant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.... A complaint is not required to set forth a cause of action, but need only set forth a claim for relief.... If, within the framework of the complaint, evidence may be introduced which will sustain a grant of relief to the plaintiff, the complaint is sufficient. Where the party moving for judgment on the pleadings does not introduce affidavits, depositions, or interrogatories in support of his motion, such motion is the equivalent of a motion to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted.... The motion to dismiss should not be granted unless the averments in the complaint disclose with certainty that the plaintiff would not be entitled to relief under any state of facts which could be proved in support of his claim.' (Citations and punctuation omitted.) Christner v. Eason, 146 Ga.App. 139, 140 , 245 S.E.2d 489 . See also Sulejman v. Marinello, 217 Ga.App. 319, 320 (2), 457 S.E.2d 251 .”
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.