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← 154 Ga. App. 4 - Rush v. Holtzclaw

154 Ga. App. 4 - Rush v. Holtzclaw’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
3
states following
March 1991
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co. v. Griggs · Smith v. Reed · 83 Ga. App. 725 - Brown v. Sheridan · Addison v. Addison · 118 Ga. App. 599 - Insurance Co. of North America v. Jewel

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[w]here parties enter into a ceremonial marriage which is not valid because of the incapacity of one of them, unknown to the other, but the impediment is later removed, their continued cohabitation thereafter as husband and wife is sufficient to create the presumption of a valid common-law marriage, nothing further appearing.”
    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.