Friedman v. Goodman’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 1994
11 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 Harrison & Garrett v. Wilson Lumber Co. · 139 Cal. App. 2d 651 - Everly v. Creech · Cooley v. Moss · McCalla v. American Freehold, &c., Co. · Lynch v. Poole
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 plaintiffs had the burden of proving that they performed the contract according to its terms, or for some legal reason such performance on their part was as a matter of law excused.” Friedman v. Goodman, 222 Ga. 613, 617 ( 151 SE2d 455 ). See Mutual Ben. Health &c. Assn. v. Hulme, 57 Ga. App. 876 , 883 ( 197 SE 85 ); Irvindale Farms v. W. O. Pierce Dairy, 78 Ga. App. 670, 685 ( 51 SE2d 712 ). In the absence of such proof the plaintiff could not recover under the express terms of the contract.”
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.