256 Ga. App. 848 - Ellerbee v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
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.
“[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.