Hill v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 district · 168 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 170 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Marquis v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. (1998), City of Gainesville v. Dodd (2002)
2 district · 168 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 Texas Co. v. Brown · City of Valdosta v. Singleton · Roach v. State · Fulton County v. Spratlin · 3 Ga. App. 573 - Rice v. Ware & Harper
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 170 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A judgment right for any reason will be affirmed by the appellate courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.