186 Ga. App. 810 - James v. Elder’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2014
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 Clark v. Bridges · Irby v. Brooks · 90 Ga. App. 235 - Nash v. Martin · Taylor v. Citizens & Southern Bank · 122 Ga. App. 160 - Leonas v. Johnson
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Sums remaining on deposit at the death of a party to a joint account belong to the surviving party or parties as against the estate of the decedent, unless there is clear and convincing evidence of a different intention at the time the account is created. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Howard v. Leonard
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.