Schaeffer v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 2010 · most notably Georgia Power Co. v. Busbin (1978), Automatic Sprinkler Corp. of America v. Anderson (1979)
3 federal appellate · 24 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 Wometco Theatres Inc. v. United Artists Corp. · 115 Ga. App. 344 - King v. Schaeffer · 80 Ga. App. 177 - Funk v. Baldwin
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is generally held that no liability for procuring a breach of contract exists where the breach is caused by the exercise of an absolute right — that is, an act which a man has a definite legal right to do without any qualification.” [Cit.] [Schaeffer v. King, 223 Ga. 468, 470 ( 155 SE2d 815 ) (1967).]”
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.