Merrill v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on City of Gainesville v. Dodd · Roberts v. Tharp · Haley v. Haley · 250 Ga. App. 42 - Sylar v. Hodges
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Parties may establish contract terms on any subject matter in which they have an interest so long as their agreement is not prohibited by statute or public policy.”
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.