175 Ga. App. 28 - Adams v. Cato’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 2018
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 144 Ga. App. 123 - Patterson v. Duron Paints of Georgia, Inc. · 157 Ga. App. 632 - Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, Inc. v. Burgess · 166 Ga. App. 446 - Klorer-Willhardt, Inc. v. Martz · 163 Ga. App. 690 - Ray v. Marietta Marine, 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to prevent precisely what happened here. Discovery, a pretrial conference and order, and a fairly lengthy trial consumed judicial as well as private resources unnecessarily, if plaintiff had no capacity to pursue this claim. It is primarily a threshold question and generally collateral to the real issues. . . . The object of lawsuits is to resolve merits of disputes, not to engage in a meaningless frustration of them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. Van Anda
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.