192 Ga. App. 329 - Ring v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2019
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 135 Ga. App. 293 - Long v. Jim Letts Oldsmobile, Inc. · 124 Ga. App. 775 - Spivey v. Mayson · 128 Ga. App. 864 - West Georgia Pulpwood & Timber Co. v. Stephens · 143 Ga. App. 810 - Beasley v. Ponder · 143 Ga. App. 838 - Wilkinson v. Walker
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Shall' ordinarily denotes command and not permission, whereas 'may' ordinarily denotes permission and not command.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The recoverability of damages is ... dependent upon the applicable law and evidence. ...”
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.