Lutz v. Foran’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Waldroup v. Greene County Hospital Authority (1995), Tante v. Herring (1994)
38 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 Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. State · TelecomUsa, Inc. v. Collins · Housing Auth. of Savannah v. Greene · Cheeley v. Henderson · Gillis v. Goodgame
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“action for damages alleging professional malpractice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[n]o law or ordinance shall pass containing any matter different from what is expressed in the title thereof”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Georgia was the first state to adopt a constitutional title and single-subject requirement,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.