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197 Ga. App. 829 - Godwin v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

1990

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
June 2002
most recently cited

11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 166 Ga. App. 290 - Fort v. Boone · 186 Ga. App. 810 - James v. Elder · 195 Ga. App. 766 - Turner v. Mikell · 184 Ga. App. 681 - Banks v. Todd · 183 Ga. App. 137 - Nowlin v. Parker

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[s]ums 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 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.