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← 269 Ga. 7 - Henderson v. McVay

Henderson v. McVay’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

28
cited by 28 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

26 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Titelman v. Stedman (2003), Schrenko v. DeKalb County School District (2003)

26 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 Smith v. State · State v. Fleming · South View Cemetery Association v. Hailey · City of Atlanta v. Wansley Moving & Storage Co. · Hooks v. Brown

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

  1. “Mandamus will issue against a public officer under two circumstances: (1) where there is a clear legal right to the relief sought, [cit.], and (2) where there has been a gross abuse of discretion. [Cit.]”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “In order to disqualify the judge, the alleged bias must stem from an extra-judicial source and result in an opinion based on something other than what the judge learned from participating in the case.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “'[i]t is as much the duty of a judge not to grant the motion to recuse when the motion is legally insufficient as it is to recuse when the motion is meritorious.'”
    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.