170 Ga. App. 647 - Pottinger v. Cross’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2015
7 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 137 Ga. App. 408 - Howard Sheppard, Inc. v. McGowan · 4 Ga. App. 771 - Albany Phosphate Co. v. Hugger Bros. · Sanford-Brown Co. v. Patent C. Company Inc. · 157 Ga. App. 330 - HOSPITAL AUTHORITY OF CHARLTON COUNTY v. Bryant · 159 Ga. App. 777 - Kuhlke Construction Co. v. Mobley, Inc.
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 evidence in this case may not show the damages to a certainty, but the ability to `estimate damages to a reasonable certainty' is all that is required [cit.], and mere difficulty in fixing the exact amount will not be an obstacle to the award.”
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.