Benton v. Benton’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably 291 Ga. App. 86 - Smith v. Stewart (2008), 315 Ga. App. 214 - Weller v. Blake (2012)
70 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 Home Builders Ass'n of Savannah, Inc. v. Chatham County · 246 Ga. App. 822 - Suarez v. Halbert · 212 Ga. App. 454 - Southmark Corp. v. Trotter, Smith & Jacobs · 223 Ga. App. 650 - Johnson v. Trust Co. Bank · 153 Ga. App. 636 - Morton v. Stewart
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[0]n appeal from the denial or grant of summary judgment the appellate court is to conduct a de novo review of the evidence to determine whether there exists a genuine issue of material fact, and whether the undisputed facts, viewed in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party, warrant judgment as a matter of law.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“In order to prevail on a motion for summary judgment under OCGA § 9-11-56, the moving party must show that there exists no genuine issue of material fact, and that the undisputed facts, viewed in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party, demand judgment as a matter of law.”
2 later decisions 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.