196 Ga. App. 61 - Shears v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 2014
18 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 169 Ga. App. 438 - Forsyth v. Brazil · 164 Ga. App. 15 - Ellington v. State · 177 Ga. App. 745 - Freemon v. Dubroca · 167 Ga. App. 673 - Bowman v. United States Life Insurance
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ordinarily, the determination of whether the plaintiff was guilty of laches in failing to exercise due diligence in perfecting service after the running of the statute of limitations is a matter within the trial court's discretion and will not be disturbed on appeal absent abuse.”
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.