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← 269 Ga. 141 - Dolinger v. Driver

Dolinger v. Driver’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

26
cited by 26 later decisions
3
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “[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
  2. “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
  3. “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.