218 Ga. App. 385 - Brown v. Kinser’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2019
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 153 Ga. App. 276 - Riddle v. Driebe · Davis v. Findley · Hyre v. Denise · 197 Ga. App. 791 - Arnall, Golden & Gregory v. Health Service Centers, Inc. · 217 Ga. App. 80 - Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue v. American Envirecycle, Inc.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where a party asserts an arguably meritorious position, there was not a complete absence of any justiciable issue of law or fact such that an award of attorney fees is appropriate”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“applicant is not entitled to attorney fees merely because summary judgment was granted in his favor”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Notwithstanding the 'any evidence' standard of review, when considering an appeal from an award of attorney fees ..., we must determine whether the claim asserted below either had some factual merit or presented a justiciable issue of law.”
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.