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310 Ga. App. 355 - INFINITE ENERGY, INC. v. Pardue’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited

17 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. · Hutchinson v. Proxmire · Anderson v. Flake · Mathis v. Cannon · Stendahl v. Cobb County

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “accept the allegations of fact that appear in the complaint and view those allegations in the light most favorable to the plaintiff.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[a] trial court's ruling on a motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim is subject to de novo review[,]”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “A cause of action for defamation consists of four elements: (1) a false and defamatory statement concerning the plaintiff; (2) an unprivileged communication to a third party; (3) fault by the defendant amounting at least to negligence; and (4) special harm or the actionability of the statement irrespective of special harm.”
    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.