263 Ga. App. 201 - DeKalb County v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McKemie v. City of Griffin · 200 Ga. App. 723 - Department of Transportation v. Franco's Pizza & Delicatessen, Inc. · 235 Ga. App. 160 - Gibson v. Decatur Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n · White v. Fulton County · Ellis v. Johnson
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a trial court to award attorney fees if it finds (1) that an attorney or party brought or defended an action, or part of an action, that lacked substantial justification; or (2) that the action, or part of it, was interposed for delay or harassment; or (3) that an attorney or party unnecessarily expanded the proceedings by other improper conduct.”
2 later decisions 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.