238 Ga. App. 621 - Smith v. Vencare, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2025
2 district · 14 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 St. Amant v. Thompson · Lau's Corp., Inc. v. Haskins · Prophecy Corp. v. Charles Rossignol, Inc. · 140 Ga. App. 49 - Williams v. Trust Co. of Ga. · 119 Ga. App. 513 - Chandler v. Gately
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]mong the factors that the trial court must consider in allowing such amendment adding a new party for another party is the prejudice to the [parties] and the reasons and justifications for failure to include these parties in the original suit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“trial court must exercise its sound discretion in allowing the addition of parties”
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.