Zepp v. Brannen’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Manley v. State (2010), 311 Ga. App. 208 - Trotman v. VELOCITEACH PROJECT MANAGEMENT, LLC (2011)
36 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 Cohens v. Virginia · Central Virginia Community College v. Katz · Swint v. Smith · Titelman v. Stedman · 104 Ga. App. 473 - Lewis v. Price
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a statement in an opinion concerning some rule of law or legal proposition not necessarily involved nor essential to determination of the case in hand,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“are not bound to follow ... dicta [from] a prior case where the point now at issue was not fully debated”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Generally, mandamus is not an available remedy to require a judicial officer to perform a judicial function in a manner different from the way the judicial officer has performed it because mandamus is not available if there is another specific legal remedy (OCGA § 9-6-20), and a right of judicial review of the act of a judicial officer is a legal remedy. [Cit.]”
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.