Akins v. Couch’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2021
16 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 City Dodge, Inc. v. Gardner · Wilhite v. Mays · Gibson v. Alford · 157 Ga. App. 666 - Premium Distributing Co. v. National Distributing Co. · 205 Ga. App. 128 - Ramey v. Leisure, Ltd.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the location of information in public records does not necessarily defeat a claim of passive concealment.”
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.