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249 Ga. App. 32 - Walden v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Stonecypher v. Georgia Power Co. · Neely v. Sheppard · 187 Ga. App. 754 - Hill v. Century 21 Max Stancil Realty, Inc. · 220 Ga. App. 449 - Real Estate International, Inc. v. Buggay · 238 Ga. App. 355 - Wender & Roberts, Inc. v. Wender

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

  1. “Whether a plaintiff could have protected itself by the exercise of due diligence is generally a question for the jury; however, an exception occurs when a plaintiff cannot offer evidence that he exercised his duty of due diligence to ascertain the truth and to avoid damage.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “When a buyer could have protected himself by the exercise of due diligence, he cannot show justifiable reliance on his part.”
    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.