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246 Ga. App. 71 - Deep Six, Inc. v. Abernathy’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

65
cited by 65 later decisions
1
states following
September 2016
most recently cited

2 district · 55 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 241 Ga. App. 141 - Holloman v. D. R. Horton, Inc. · Rizk v. Jones · 180 Ga. App. 520 - Travelers Insurance Company v. Blakey · 218 Ga. App. 315 - Richard Haney Ford, Inc. v. Ford Dealer Computer Services · Lemon v. Martin

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 65 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.