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234 Ga. App. 79 - Grier v. Brogdon’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
July 2018
most recently cited

16 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2018

16 state decisions

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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 Travelers Insurance v. Blakey · Brack v. Brownlee · Williams v. Physicians & Surgeons Community Hospital, Inc. · 187 Ga. App. 639 - Panfel v. Boyd · 180 Ga. App. 520 - Travelers Insurance Company v. Blakey

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The trial court must first decide whether the contract language is ambiguous; if it is ambiguous, the trial court must then apply the applicable rules of construction (OCGA § 13-2-2); if after doing so the trial court determines that an ambiguity still remains, the jury must then resolve the ambiguity.”
    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.