192 Ga. App. 781 - Hunsinger v. Lockheed Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably St. Charles Foods, Inc. v. America's Favorite Chicken Co. (1999), Georgia-Pacific Corporation v. Lieberam (1992)
6 federal appellate · 7 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 185 Ga. App. 845 - Behar v. Aero Med International, Inc. · 176 Ga. App. 586 - Stern's Gallery of Gifts, Inc. v. Corporate Property Investors, Inc. · Giddens Construction Co. v. Fickling & Walker Co. · Health Service Centers, Inc. v. Boddy · Hunter v. Benamy Realty Co.
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.
“Where the terms of a written contract are clear and unambiguous, the court will look only to the contract to find the intention of the parties. No construction of a contract is required or permitted when the language used by the parties is plain, unambiguous, and capable of only one reasonable interpretation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he cardinal rule of [contract] construction is to ascertain the intention of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whole contract should be looked to in arriving at the construction of any part”
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.