Heard v. Hopper’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2011
10 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 Piggly-Wiggly Georgia Co. v. May Investing Corp. · 127 Ga. App. 207 - American Photocopy Equipment Co. v. Lew Deadmore & Associates, Inc. · Dunn v. Dunn · Carroll v. Muller · 129 Ga. App. 725 - Radcliffe v. Boyd Motor Lines, Inc.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A subpoena may be served by any sheriff, by his deputy or by any other person not less than 18 years of age. Proof may be shown by return or certificate indorsed on a copy of the subpoena. Subpoenas may also be served by registered or certified mail, and the return receipt shall constitute prima facie proof of service. Service upon a party may be made by serving his counsel of record.” In construing that statute, the Supreme Court held in Heard v. Hopper, 233 Ga. 617, 618 ( 212 SE2d 797 ):”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edenfield v. State
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.