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Davis v. Findley’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

28
cited by 28 later decisions
2
states following
January 2019
most recently cited

20 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Tante v. Herring (1994), Allen v. Lefkoff, Duncan, Grimes & Dermer, P.C. (1995)

20 state decisions

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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 169 Ga. App. 9 - East River Savings Bank v. Steele · 185 Ga. App. 122 - Roberts v. Langdale · 202 Ga. App. 332 - Findley v. Davis · In re Weiner · In re Crews

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

  1. “illegal and clearly excessive . . . in violation of the Canon of Ethics of the State Bar of Georgia,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “standing alone, cannot serve as a legal basis”
    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.