170 Ga. App. 457 - Brooks v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 82 Ga. App. 321 - Atlanta Journal Co. v. Doyal · 76 Ga. App. 57 - Southeastern Newspapers Inc. v. Walker · 165 Ga. App. 719 - MacOn Telegraph Publishing Co. v. Elliott · Garland v. State
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] libel is a false and malicious defamation of another expressed in print, writing, pictures or signs, tending to injure the reputation of the person and exposing him to public hatred, contempt or ridicule.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.