147 Ga. App. 721 - Cofer v. Summerlin’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2000
6 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s a condition precedent to suspending a person’s driver’s license, [the law] requires that the Department of Public Safety receive a sworn report from the arresting officer that he had reasonable grounds to believe that the accused was driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol and that he refused to submit to tests to detect his level of intoxication. . . . The superior court correctly held that the filing of the arresting officer’s affidavit was a condition precedent to suspension of appellee’s driver’s license and because the affidavit was not introduced in evidence at the hearing, there was no evidence that the affidavit was received by the Department of Public Safety. 12”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Miles v. Ahearn
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.