260 Ga. App. 744 - Patton v. Turnage’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2023
11 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 209 Ga. App. 401 - Southern Cellular Telecom v. Banks · Wheat Enterprises, Inc. v. Redi-Floors, Inc. · 226 Ga. App. 21 - Watson v. Sierra Contracting Corp. · 227 Ga. App. 207 - Department of Transportation v. Dalton Paving & Construction, Inc. · 159 Ga. App. 815 - First Bank of Clayton County v. Dollar
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An action on open account is a simplified pleading procedure where a party can recover what he was justly and equitably entitled to without regard to a special agreement to pay such amount for goods or services as they were reasonably worth when there exists no dispute as to the amount due or the goods or services received.””
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.