Hobbs v. Arthur’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Hedquist v. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc. (2000), 299 Ga. App. 145 - Chandler v. OPENSIDED MRI OF ATLANTA, LLC (2009)
2 federal appellate · 67 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 Cox v. Strickland · Atlanta, Knoxville & Northern Railway Co. v. Wilson · 125 Ga. App. 423 - Hilton v. Maddox, Bishop, Hayton Frame & Trim Contractors, Inc. · Clark v. Newsome · Patterson v. Douglas Women's Center, PC
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen any case has been commenced in either a state or federal court within the applicable statute of limitations and the plaintiff discontinues or dismisses the same, it may be recommenced in a court of this state or in a federal court either within the original applicable period of limitations or within six months after the discontinuance or dismissal, whichever is later....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] suit is also void and incapable of renewal under OCGA § 9-2-61 (a) if there has been a judicial determination that dismissal is authorized. However, unless and until the trial court enters an order dismissing a valid action, it is merely voidable and not void.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A suit is void if service was never perfected”
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.