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← 265 Ga. 804 - Engram v. Engram

Engram v. Engram’s Empirical Analysis

1995

Citation profile

45
cited by 45 later decisions
1
states following
January 2019
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably St. Paul Mercury Insurance v. Meeks (1998), 251 Ga. App. 124 - Hollifield v. Monte Vista Biblical Gardens, Inc. (2001)

2 federal appellate · 2 district · 29 state decisions

190199520002010decided

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 Lau's Corp., Inc. v. Haskins · Precise v. City of Rossville · Hoffman v. Insurance Co. of North America · 215 Ga. App. 786 - Smith v. McClung · Smith v. Cox

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

  1. “Unjust enrichment applies when as a matter of fact there is no legal contract, but when the party sought to be charged has been conferred a benefit by the party contending an unjust enrichment which the benefitted party equitably ought to return or compensate for.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[T]he undisputed evidence shows that the parties never intended that appellees be responsible for the cost of the bedroom addition.”
    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.