Cline v. McMullan’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 2021
4 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 Georgia Power Co. v. Cornwell · Woodside v. City of Atlanta · Williams v. City of LaGrange · Thomas v. City of Cairo · McGreggor v. W. L. Florence Construction Co.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Authority to petition for the grant of a private way is provided in Art. I, Sec. III, Par. II of the Constitution [of the State of Georgia] and the procedure to obtain a private way is codified in Art. III, Chapter 9 of Title 44 [of the Official Code of Georgia]. ... Title 44 creates a statutory procedure by which an individual can obtain a private way across property owned by another.”
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.