171 Ga. App. 695 - Williamson v. Lucas’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2002
3 federal appellate · 11 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 Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Tornillo · Pavesich v. New England Life Insurance · 35 Cal. 2d 121 - Werner v. Southern California Associated Newpapers · Hollowell v. Jove · 88 Ga. App. 519 - Brown v. Georgia-Tennessee Coaches, 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`where the language of an Act is plain and unequivocal, judicial construction is not only unnecessary but is forbidden. [Cit.]'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“civil action for libel which charges the publication of an erroneous statement;”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Mathis v. Cannon“in a regular issue of the newspaper or other publication in question”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Mathis v. Cannon
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.