201 Ga. App. 480 - Thompson v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 2018
17 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 Haines v. Kerner · Dillingham v. Doctors Clinic, P. A. · Cheeley v. Henderson · St. Joseph's Hospital, Inc. v. Nease · Glaser v. Meck
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defendant[s were] in no worse position than if the plaintiff had understood the language of OCGA § 9-11-9.1 and originally inserted the language required by subsection (b) of that statute in the complaint.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“This court has repeatedly held that the spirit and intent of the Civil Practice Act require that pleadings are to be liberally construed in favor of the pleader. Mills v. Bing, 181 Ga.App. 475, 476 , 352 S.E.2d 798 (1987); Tahamtan v. Dixie Ornamental Iron Co., 143 Ga.App. 561 , 239 S.E.2d 217 (1977).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it was not retained by the plaintiff more than 90 days prior to the expiration of the period of limitation on the plaintiff's claim, so as to extend the time for filing the affidavit by 45 days after the filing of the complaint”
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.