Tony v. Pollard’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2001 · most notably 201 Ga. App. 238 - Gregg v. State (1991), 193 Ga. App. 723 - Manderson & Associates, Inc. v. Gore (1989)
39 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 Amalgamated Clothing Workers v. Prepmore Apparel, Inc. · Howard v. Walker · Brown v. Frachiseur · Coker v. City of Atlanta · Lee v. Porter
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[a] correct decision of a trial court will not be reversed, regardless of the reasons given therefor.' [Cit.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Hence the rule that opinion evidence cannot be used to support the grant of summary judgment is no longer absolute.”
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.