Eickhoff v. Eickhoff’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably Lee v. Green Land Co., Inc. (2000), 219 Ga. App. 551 - Wright v. Trust Co. Bank (1995)
23 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1056 (§ 206 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on MacKey v. Lanier Collection Agency & Service, Inc. · West v. Clarke · Travelers Insurance v. Blakey · Watkins v. Conway · 168 Ga. App. 344 - General Electric Credit Corp. v. Home Indemnity 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘(The parties’) interpretation is entitled to great, if not controlling, influence, and will generally be adopted and followed by the courts, particularly when the parties’ interpretation is made before any controversy, or when the construction of one party is against his interest. (Cit.)”’ [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. Anderson“a party who is in breach of a mere private contract to pay money is not, in this state, constitutionally amenable to a citation for contempt”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gary v. Gowins“Art. VI, Sec. VI, Par. III(6) of the Ga. Const. of 1983. The Court of Appeals has jurisdiction over all other”
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.