Waldrep v. Goodwin’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 2000 · most notably 140 Ga. App. 49 - Williams v. Trust Co. of Ga. (1976), 157 Ga. App. 436 - Holiday Inns, Inc. v. Newton (1981)
34 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 Lane v. Lane · 125 Ga. App. 416 - American Plan Corp. v. Beckham · Duffie v. Corridon · Brooks v. Woodson · Waldrep v. Goodwin
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]nce a party in the position of a defendant who is a movant for summary judgment pierces the pleadings of one in the position of a plaintiff and shows to the court that one essential element under any theory of recovery is lacking and incapable of proof, the defendant is entitled to summary judgment as a matter of law irrespective of any issues of fact with regard to other essential elements. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]here can be no fraud when [as in the present case] all parties sit at the same table and affix their signatures in the presence of each other regardless of who signs first.”
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.