Alexander v. DeKalb County’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Rebich v. Miles (1994), 218 Ga. App. 149 - Cobb County v. Jones Group P.L.C. (1995)
24 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 Wrenn v. Board of Directors · Dougherty County v. Webb · Trend Development Corp. v. Douglas County · DeKalb County v. Post Properties, Inc. · Ensley v. Ensley
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The distinction between [criminal and civil contempt] is that criminal contempt imposes unconditional punishment for prior acts of contumacy, whereas civil contempt imposes conditional punishment as a means of coercing future compliance with a prior court order.' [Cit.]”
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.