Ham v. Ham’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently September 1997 · most notably Crawford v. Williams (1989), 174 Ga. App. 832 - Cunningham v. National Service Industries, Inc. (1985)
55 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 117 Ga. App. 331 - Colonial Stores, Inc. v. Turner · Stevens v. Stevens
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'On a motion for summary judgment the burden of establishing the non-existence of any genuine issue of fact is upon the moving party and all doubts are to be resolved against the movant. The movant has that burden even as to issues upon which the opposing party would have the trial burden, and the moving party’s papers are carefully scrutinized, while the opposing party’s papers, if any, are treated with considerable indulgence. [Cit.]’ Ham v. Ham, 230 Ga. 43, 45 (195 SE2d 429).”
5 later decisions 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.