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245 Ga. App. 780 - Mooney v. Mooney’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

40
cited by 40 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Prophecy Corp. v. Charles Rossignol, Inc. · Gentile v. Miller, Stevenson & Steinichen, Inc. · 227 Ga. App. 648 - Simpson Consulting, Inc. v. Barclays Bank PLC · 205 Ga. App. 400 - Bridges v. RELIANCE TRUST COMPANY · Bank of Dade v. Reeves

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

  1. “An essential element of a claim of promissory estoppel is that the defendant made certain promises to the plaintiff. And, while the promise need not meet the formal requirements of a contract, it must, nonetheless, have been communicated with sufficient particularity to enforce the commitment.”
    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.