226 Ga. App. 396 - Patterson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably 246 Ga. App. 445 - Ingraham v. Marr (2000), 232 Ga. App. 191 - Wilson v. Ortiz (1998)
21 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 183 Ga. App. 751 - Roberts v. Bienert · 220 Ga. App. 388 - Sykes v. Springer · 212 Ga. App. 618 - Devoe v. Callis · 167 Ga. App. 673 - Bowman v. United States Life Insurance · Jarmon v. Murphy
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“obligated to exercise, not due diligence, but the greatest possible diligence to ensure proper and timely service.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the responsibility to investigate and learn where the defendant may be located and served”
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.