210 Ga. App. 10 - Roberts v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 2010
6 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 Rothstein v. Golf Club Co. · 185 Ga. App. 304 - First Federal Savings Bank v. Hart · 64 Ga. App. 139 - Brandon v. Arkansas Fuel-Oil Co. · Hubacher v. Volkswagen Central, Inc. · Pavlovski v. Thornton
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[publication is indispensable to recovery for libel or slander. (Cits.) A defamatory matter is published as soon as it is communicated to any person other than the impugned party. (Cits.)” Roberts v. Lane, 210 Ga. App. 10, 11 (1) ( 435 SE2d 227 ) (1993); [cits.]”
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.