222 Ga. App. 783 - Hester v. Chalker’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2018
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 185 Ga. App. 809 - Law Office of Tony Center v. Baker · 211 Ga. App. 202 - Ramsey v. Sumner · Johnson v. Giraud · Kilgore v. Buice · 158 Ga. App. 769 - Griner v. Foskey
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]othing in OCGA § 44-14-361 authorizes its application to attorneys. By its plain terms the reach of the materialmen’s lien statute is limited to persons who have improved the property at issue. . . . The General Assembly did not elect to include attorneys in the list of persons having a special materialmen’s lien on real estate. . . . The attorney lien statute establishes the priority of attorneys’ liens and the method of enforcement. OCGA § 15-19-14. According to the statute’s plain terms, it permits but does not require enforcement of attorney liens by means of mortgage and foreclosure. OCGA § 15-19-14 (c). Nor does the statute require that suit be filed to enforce the lien within 12 months.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] properly filed attorney's lien binds all persons including future lienholders and purchasers for value including bona fide purchasers.”
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.