180 Ga. App. 708 - Gamble v. Lovett School’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2021
10 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 Mobley v. Murray County · 103 Ga. App. 225 - Piedmont Life Insurance Co. v. Bell · 153 Ga. App. 225 - R. L. Sanders Roofing Co. v. Miller · 174 Ga. App. 430 - Leathers v. TIMEX CORPORATION
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n contract actions the time of the breach controls, not the time the actual damages result or are ascertained. R. L. Sanders &c. Co. v. Miller, 153 Ga. App. 225, 226 (1) ( 264 SE2d 731 ) (1980). As held in Mobley v. Murray County, 178 Ga. 388 (1) ( 173 SE 680 ) (1934), “the true test to determine when the cause of action accrued is ‘to ascertain the time when the plaintiff could first have maintained his action to a successful result.’ ” Actual damage is not essential, but the right of action has its inception upon the breach of duty.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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