Shepherd v. Shepherd’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 2008
4 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 Heath v. Miller · Matthews v. Fayette County · Bigham v. Kistler · Shepherd v. Shepherd · Bennett Plumbing Co. v. Lovins
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A general appearance by a defendant in an action in a court having jurisdiction of the subject matter amounts to a waiver of the issuance of, or defects in the process served, and confers jurisdiction of his person regardless of the fact that process was not served on him or that the service may have been defective. . . .” [Cit.] [OCGA § 9-11-12] (h) . . . provides: “. . . (1) A defense of. . . insufficiency of service of process is waived . . . ([B]) if it is neither made by motion under this [Code] section nor included in a responsive pleading as originally filed.””
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.