Deller v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2018
11 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 DeKalb County v. Post Properties, Inc. · Broderick v. Reid · 123 Ga. App. 833 - Knight v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. · Hawes v. Gloves · Furr v. Jordan
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defenses enumerated in § 12 (b) of The Civil Practice Act [OCGA § 9-11-12 (b)] except (6), failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted, are matters in abatement which are not within the scope of the summary judgment procedure, as a motion for summary judgment applies to the merits of the claim or to matters in bar but not to matters in abatement. [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“only the qualification of a permanent administrator constitutes representation upon the estate so as to trigger the revival of a tolled statute of limitations.”
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.