161 Ga. App. 328 - Terry v. Mays’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2005
3 federal appellate · 12 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 Bradford Elec. Light Co. v. Clapper · John Hancock Mut Life Ins Co v. Yates · 115 Ga. App. 286 - Gulf American Fire & Casualty Co. v. McNeal · Trustees of Jesse Parker Williams Hospital v. Nisbet · Hutchinson v. Hutchinson
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Enforcement of a contract or a contract provision which is valid by the law governing the contract will not be denied on the ground of public policy, unless a “strong case” for such action is presented; mere dissimilarity of law is not sufficient for application of the public policy doctrine. A contract is not necessarily contrary to the public policy of a state merely because it could not validly have been made there, notwithstanding the making of such contracts in the place of the forum is expressly prohibited by statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGow v. McCurry“leading Georgia case explanatory of the law of lex loci contractus " and adopted its rule: "Where a pleaded contract not only is executed in a foreign State, but contains nothing to indicate by the place of performance or otherwise that it was intended to be construed as a Georgia contract, it will be treated as a contract of the foreign State, and governed by its laws.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“leading Georgia case explanatory of the law of lex loci contractus”
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.