Bethune v. Leake’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
June 1993
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 63 Ga. App. 790 - Leach v. Inman · Hutson v. King · 134 Ga. App. 226 - Brooks v. Logan · 54 Ga. App. 9 - Greenfield v. Watson · Cox v. Greenfield
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`A defendant who has cast upon a plaintiff the burden of responding with evidence to create or preserve a genuine issue of fact is entitled to prevail by summary judgment in the absence of any rebuttal evidence. [Cits.]' [Cits.]”
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.