Garrard v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
October 2006
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Rayle Electric Membership Corporation v. Cook · State of Ga. v. McMillan
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`is plain and susceptible of but one natural and reasonable construction, the court has no authority to place a different construction upon it, but must construe it according to its terms.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lowry v. McDuffie
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.