2 Ga. App. 812 - Bell v. New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 1983 · most notably Piggly-Wiggly Georgia Co. v. May Investing Corp. (1939), Chance v. Planters Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. (1963)
26 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 Green v. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Co. · John Haddock v. Harriet Haddock · Lyndon v. Georgia Railway & Electric Co. · Tuchband v. Chicago & Alton Railroad · Reeves v. Southern Railway 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“•‘Sec. 1809. Service of all subyeenas, writs, altaeliments, and other process necessary to the eoiumeueenent of any suit against any corporation in any court, except as hereinafter provided, may be perfected by serving any officer or agent of such corporation, or by leaving the same at the place of transacting the usual and ordinary irablic business of such corporation, if any such place of business then shall he within the jurisdiction of the court in which said suit may be commenced. The officer shall specify the mode of service in his return.””
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.