183 Ga. App. 103 - Chapman v. Burks’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably 243 Ga. App. 544 - Carter v. Glenn (2000), 189 Ga. App. 340 - Bohannon v. Futrell (1988)
21 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 Prophecy Corp. v. Charles Rossignol, Inc. · Eiberger v. West · 173 Ga. App. 594 - Curlee v. Mock Enterprises, Inc. · Tri-Cities Hospital Authority v. Sheats · 150 Ga. App. 234 - Lowe v. Pue
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Minors and persons who are legally incompetent because of mental retardation or mental illness, who are such when the cause of action accrues, shall be entitled to the same time after their disability is removed to bring an action as is prescribed for other persons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“so mentally incompetent (non compos mentis or insane), so unsound in mind, or so imbecile in intellect, that he could not manage his ordinary affairs of life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he test is one of capacitywhether the individual, being of unsound mind, could not manage the ordinary affairs of his life.”
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.