McConnell v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 2020
19 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 Schrembs v. Atlanta Classic Cars, Inc. · Tenet Healthcare Corp. v. Louisiana Forum Corp. · Swindell v. Swindell · 280 Ga. App. 546 - McConnell v. Wright · 273 Ga. App. 344 - Greenbriar Homes, Inc. v. Builders Insurance
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n essence, what the law contemplates under OCGA § 9-11-37 is a two-step proceeding before the ultimate sanction of dismissal or default judgment may be imposed. First, a motion to compel must be filed and granted; second, after the party seeking sanctions notifies the court and the obstinate party of the latter's failure to comply with the order granting the motion to compel and of the moving party's desire for the imposition of sanctions, the trial court may apply sanctions after giving the obstinate party an opportunity to be heard and determining that the obstinate party's failure to obey was willful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the trial court need not conduct a hearing on the issue of wilfulness in every case. Such a requirement serves no purpose where the trial court can otherwise determine wilfulness on the part of the party against whom the sanctions are sought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Portman v. Zipperer“[h]ad there been evidence on the face of the record showing that the McConnells acted wilfully, the result of this case might be different.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Portman v. Zipperer
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.