190 Ga. App. 335 - Hornsby v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2013
12 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 Ford Motor Co. v. Carter · 181 Ga. App. 516 - Eberhart v. Morris Brown College · 144 Ga. App. 813 - Attaway v. Tom's Auto Sales, Inc. · 184 Ga. App. 551 - Taylor v. Career Concepts, Inc. · 186 Ga. App. 297 - Simpson v. Reed
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.
“we held that when an action is brought for violation of the FBPA, contractual defenses are irrelevant and inapplicable. The same principle applies here, and we hold that contractual defenses are inapplicable when an action is based not on the contract but solely on an alleged violation of the Sale of Business Opportunities Act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“shall constitute an unfair or deceptive act or practice in the conduct of a consumer act or practice or consumer transactions under Part 2 of this article, the 'Fair Business Practices Act of 1975,' and shall authorize an affected participant or purchaser to seek the remedies provided for in Code Section 10-1-399....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The Georgia Sale of Business Opportunities Act was enacted in 1980, Ga.L.1980, p. 1233, Sec. 1, and its purpose was, inter alia, '[t]o prevent and prohibit fraudulent and deceptive practices in the sale of business opportunities.'”
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.