Cochran v. McCollum’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently November 2020 · most notably Skelton v. Skelton (1983), Dillingham v. Doctors Clinic, P. A. (1976)
75 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. 236 - Harper v. DeFreitas · Management Search, Inc. v. Kinard · Hayes v. Hallmark Apartments · Martin v. Approved Bancredit Corp. · 124 Ga. App. 863 - Continental Investment Corp. v. Cherry
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The basic premise of the new Civil Practice Act is that it does away with `issue pleading' and substitutes `notice pleading.'... `A petition should not be dismissed for failure to state a claim unless it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.' [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“proper remedy for seeking more particularity is by motion for a more definite statement ... at the pleading stage or by the rules of discovery thereafter.”
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.