Jackson v. Spalding County’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably King v. State (2000), City of Cumming v. Flowers (2017)
2 federal appellate · 22 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 Bentley v. Chastain · South View Cemetery Association v. Hailey · Dougherty County v. Webb · City of Atlanta v. Wansley Moving & Storage Co. · City of Cedartown v. Pickett
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.
“This decision-making process is akin to a judicial act: the board determines the facts and applies the ordinance's legal standards to them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The test is whether the parties at interest had a right under the law to demand a trial in accordance with judicial procedure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.