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← 254 Ga. App. 569 - Culpepper v. Thompson

254 Ga. App. 569 - Culpepper v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
September 2016
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Atlanta Market Center Management Co. v. McLane · 213 Ga. App. 333 - Renden, Inc. v. Liberty Real Estate Ltd. Partnership · 228 Ga. App. 739 - Disaster Services, Inc. v. ERC Partnership · 231 Ga. App. 685 - Zarach v. Atlanta Claims Ass'n · 226 Ga. App. 888 - Nationsbank, N.A. v. Southtrust Bank of Georgia, N.A.

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

  1. “(1) improper action or wrongful conduct by the defendant without privilege; (2) the defendant acted purposely and with malice with the intent to injure; (3) the defendant induced a breach of a contractual obligation or caused a party or third party to discontinue or fail to enter into an anticipated business relationship with the plaintiff; and (4) the defendant’s tortious conduct proximately caused damage to the plaintiff.”
    4 later decisions 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.