Tendler v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2024
16 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 Building Authority of Fulton County v. State · 152 Ga. App. 64 - Baker v. Housing Authority
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“doctrine of separation of powers applies only to the state and not to municipalities or to county governments”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[t]he law does not require a useless act.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mize v. State
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.