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252 Ga. App. 282 - Mathis v. Cannon’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
March 2011
most recently cited

2 district · 5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · 226 Ga. App. 459 - Matjoulis v. Integon General Ins. Corp. · 238 Ga. App. 885 - Jaillett v. Georgia Television Co. · Melton v. Bow

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

  1. “think that crisp county needs to be dumping ground of the south? ? ?”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “in a regular issue of the newspaper or other publication”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “a false and malicious defamation of another”
    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.