Dolinger v. Driver’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 247 Ga. App. 243 - Hopkins v. Virginia Highland Associates, L.P. (2000), 238 Ga. App. 123 - Ganny v. Ganny (1999)
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 Chastain v. Baker · Martin v. Williams · Frost v. Frost · Payne v. Chatman · Lewis v. Board of Education
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.
“[A] court of equity has no more right than a court of law to act on its own notion of what is right in a particular case. “Where rights are defined and established by existing legal principles, they may not be changed or unsettled in equity” [Cit.] Although equity does seek to do complete justice, it must do so within the parameters of the law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although the injunction in this case is denominated as a TRO, there is no magic in nomenclature. A document is to be construed by its substance or function, rather than by its name.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“did not merely preserve the status quo pending further proceedings; it directed action which gave [Moe's] all of the relief [it] sought.”
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.