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256 Ga. App. 848 - Ellerbee v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
May 2016
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 149 Ga. App. 579 - Elliott v. State · 133 Ga. App. 244 - Croy v. State · 239 Ga. App. 620 - Ramey v. State · 210 Ga. App. 843 - Arnold v. State · 176 Ga. App. 109 - Ludden v. State

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

  1. “[t]he reason for the rule [regarding existing or past events] is that if the party to whom the representations was made chose to rely upon the promise as to a future contingency, he is not deceived by deceitful means or artful practice, but his loss results from his absolute confidence in the party making the promise.”
    2 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.