Eiberger v. West’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 199 Ga. App. 808 - Smith v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (1991), 194 Ga. App. 874 - Bishop v. Mangal Bhai Enterprises, Inc. (1990)
76 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 Chambers v. Citizens & Southern National Bank · Grant v. Hart · Jones v. Spindel · 143 Ga. App. 337 - Holt v. Rickett · Tune v. Beeland
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[s]ummary judgment may be granted on evidence that would compel the direction of a verdict; and should be denied when a directed verdict would be improper.' 6 Moore's Federal Practice, Para. 56.15[4], p. 56-522.”
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.