Spence v. Erwin’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably 115 Ga. App. 265 - Smith v. Wood (1967), Boozer v. Higdon (1984)
30 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 Sumner v. Sumner · Draper v. Medlock · Cooper v. Portner Brewing Co. · Fain v. Wilkerson · Maxwell v. Harrison
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'A judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction shall be conclusive between the same parties and their privies as to all matters put in issue, or which under the rules of law might have been put in issue in the cause wherein the judgment was rendered, until such judgment shall be reversed or set aside.’ Code § 110-501.”
2 later decisions 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.