294 Ga. App. 679 - Smith v. Stoddard’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Boardman Petroleum, Inc. v. Federated Mutual Insurance · McCall v. Allstate Insurance · 195 Ga. App. 219 - Roman v. Terrell · 164 Ga. App. 32 - State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company v. Hancock · Dees v. Logan
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under Georgia law, contracts of insurance are interpreted by ordinary rules of contract construction. Where the terms are clear and unambiguous, and capable of only one reasonable interpretation, the court is to look to the contract alone to ascertain the parties' intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“clearly show[ed] that the legislature did not intend to authorize”
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.