Strickland v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably General Electric Credit Corp. v. Brooks (1978), 143 Ga. App. 337 - Holt v. Rickett (1977)
6 federal appellate · 13 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 Security Mortgage Co. v. Powers · Byrd v. Clark · Sellers v. City of Summerville · Stephens v. Fulford · Blumenfeld v. Citizens Bank & Trust 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““2. Code (Ann.) § 20-506 pertaining to the obligation to pay attorney’s fees contained in promissory notes was amended by an act of the General Assembly approved March 4, 1953 (Ga.L.1953, Jan.-Feb. Sess., p. 545). Under the amendment, obligations to pay attorney’s fees upon any note or other evidence of indebtedness are valid and enforceable ‘and collectible as a part of such debt, if such note or other evidence of indebtedness be collected by or through an attorney after maturity.’ “Under a contract to pay attorney’s fees if the note or other obligation ‘be collected by or through an attorney,’ only a contingent liability is created for the payment of attorney’s fees, and no liability for the payment of such fees can or will arise until such time as the contingency which is a condition precedent to the collection of such fees has been fully complied with, and the collection made by the attorney at law. ‘Where there is an agreement for the payment of a contingent fee, the happening of the contingency is a condition precedent to the right of the attorney to recovery for his services, and the precise event which was contemplated must happen.’ Byrd v. Clark, 170 Ga. 669 (2), ( 153 S.E. 737 ); Stephens v. Fulford, 153 Ga. 637 ( 112 S.E. 894 ); Sell ers v. City of Summerville, 208 Ga. 361, 367 ( 67 S.E.2d 137 ). In Sellers v. City of Summerville, supra, (p. 366 [ 67 S.E.2d 137 ]) it is said: ‘When a plaintiff’s right to recover on a contract depends upon a condition precedent to b”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“from instituting, filing, or prosecuting any suits, bills, attachments, garnishments, or other proceedings of whatever kind against the petitioner or any property or assets of his or of the said Bank other than by answer, cross-bill or intervention.”
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.