155 Ga. App. 68 - Slaughter v. Faust’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2018
3 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Relies on Rowan v. Herring · Harris v. Taylor · Cook v. Sikes · 145 Ga. App. 785 - Whitby v. Maloy · Hill v. Hill
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The object of the declaratory judgment is to permit determination of a controversy before obligations are repudiated or rights are violated. Its purpose is to permit one who is walking in the dark to ascertain where he is and where he is going, to turn on the light before he steps rather than after he has stepped in a hole.”
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.