208 Ga. App. 185 - Legum v. Crouch’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2018
12 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 Clark v. Singer · Diefenderfer v. Pierce · Gillis v. Goodgame · Lamb v. Candler General Hospital, Inc. · 206 Ga. App. 62 - Dozier v. Clayton County Hospital Authority
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The time between the death of a person and the commencement of representation upon his estate ... shall not be counted against his estate in calculating any limitation applicable to the bringing of an action, provided that such time shall not exceed five years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the tolling calculation therein provided [is] mandatory in every instance where the statute [is] applicable; that is, tolling occurs by operation of law to the extent provided by the statute.”
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.