226 Ga. App. 341 - Terrell v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2019
10 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 188 Ga. App. 14 - Kurtz v. Williams · 204 Ga. App. 762 - ITT Rayonier, Inc. v. McLaney · Georgia Power Co. v. Busbin · 209 Ga. App. 75 - Fly v. Kroger Co. · 159 Ga. App. 416 - Georgia Power Co. v. Busbin
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when the communication is intracorporate, or between members of unincorporated groups or associations, and, is heard by one who, because of his/her duty or authority has reason to receive information, there is no publication of the allegedly slanderous material, and without publication, there is no cause of action for slander. . . . Terrell v. Holmes, 226 Ga. App. 341, 342 (1) ( 487 SE2d 6 ) (1997); see ITT Rayonier v. McLaney, 204 Ga. App. 762, 764 (2) ( 420 SE2d 610 ) (1992); Kurtz v. Williams, 188 Ga. App. 14, 15 (3) ( 371 SE2d 878 ) (1988).”
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.