178 Ga. App. 321 - Brim v. Pruitt’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2014
16 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 146 Ga. App. 769 - Bible v. Hughes · DeJarnette Supply Co. v. F. P. Plaza, Inc. · Tyree v. Jackson · Thompson v. Lagerquist · Jones v. Jones
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.
“personally, or by leaving copies thereof at his dwelling house or usual place of abode with some person of suitable age and discretion then residing therein, or by delivering a copy of the summons and complaint to an agent authorized by appointment or by law to receive service of process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]here actual notice undisputedly results from service on a person at defendant's residence, to say that it is sufficient for the purposes of subsection (7) [OCGA § 9-11-4 (d) (7)] is in keeping with the intent of the legislature and the law . . . If the plaintiff can prove, or the record unquestionably shows, as here, that although the person who accepted the papers was not `then residing therein' but actually gave the papers to defendant, due process would be served more nearly perfectly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]here is undisputed evidence that [the defendant] received actual and prompt possession of the papers with knowledge of their significance. In such circumstances the law should be construed to have been fulfilled. Substantial compliance is all that is necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bible v. Bible
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.