229 Ga. App. 679 - Providence Construction Co. v. Bauer.’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2018
8 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 Eckles v. Atlanta Technology Group, Inc. · Emory University v. Porubiansky · Rosen v. Wolff · 156 Ga. App. 602 - Porubiansky v. Emory University · 224 Ga. App. 498 - Little v. Fleet Finance
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“act in furtherance of the right of free speech or the right to petition government for a redress of grievances under the Constitution of the United States or the Constitution of the State of Georgia in connection with an issue of public interest or concern”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“To prevent such abusive litigation, the legislature imposed several procedural safeguards. Any [such] complaint . . . must be accompanied by a verification, based on belief formed after reasonable inquiry, that the suit is well grounded in fact and law or represents a good-faith argument for the extension of existing law. OCGA § 9-11-11.1 (b). The plaintiff and her counsel must also verify the act forming the basis , of the suit is not a “privileged communication” under OCGA § 51-5-7, and that the suit is not filed for any improper purpose such as to suppress a person’s right of free speech or right to petition government. OCGA § 9-11-11.1 (b).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a] contract cannot be said to be contrary to public policy unless the General Assembly has declared it to be so, or unless the consideration of the contract is contrary to good morals and contrary to law, or unless the contract is entered into for the purpose of effecting an illegal or immoral agreement or doing something which is in violation of law.”
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.