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264 Ga. App. 639 - Meagher v. Quick’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

25
cited by 25 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited

15 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Lau's Corp., Inc. v. Haskins · Waldroup v. Greene County Hospital Authority · Adams v. Hazelwood · Board of Trustees of the Policemen's Pension Fund v. Christy · Sumner v. Sumner

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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[w]henever a law enforcement officer investigates an incident of family violence, whether or not an arrest is made, the officer shall prepare and submit ... a written report of the incident entitled 'Family Violence Report.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “whenever an instance of possible family violence is investigated by police ... whether founded or unfounded[.]”
    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.