227 Ga. App. 591 - Williams v. Stepler’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2018
14 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 Lau's Corp., Inc. v. Haskins · Yarbray v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. · 223 Ga. App. 842 - Fisher v. Toombs County Nursing Home · 219 Ga. App. 152 - Phillips v. MacDougald · 212 Ga. App. 102 - Alcovy Properties, Inc. v. MTW Investment Co.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is clear from a review of past decisions that, ... we have not strictly limited the privilege under OCGA § 51-5-8 to “pleadings” as they are defined under OCGA § 9-11-7 (a). Rather, the absolute privilege afforded by OCGA § 51-5-8 has been more broadly construed to cover a notice of lis pendens, an affidavit in support of an arrest warrant, and the words of a judge in the course of a judicial proceeding. [Cits.] Indeed, we have generally described the coverage of the privilege to include “official court documents” and acts of “legal process.” [Cits.] 28”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]ll charges, allegations, and averments contained in regular pleadings filed in a court of competent jurisdiction, which are pertinent and material to the relief sought,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Shavers“we have generally described the coverage of the privilege to include ... acts of legal process.”
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.