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← 162 Ga. App. 569 - Thomas v. Dickson

162 Ga. App. 569 - Thomas v. Dickson’s Empirical Analysis

1982

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
February 1987
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Pickett v. Paine · 160 Ga. App. 692 - Fletcher v. Amax, Inc. · 157 Ga. App. 64 - Pelletier v. Schultz · Chalverus v. Wilson Manufacturing Co. · Pico, Inc. v. Mickel

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

  1. “a gratuitous promise made without consideration ... has no binding effect on [a] corporation.”
    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.