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312 Ga. App. 1 - Longstreet v. Decker’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
November 2013
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Cowart v. Widener · 126 Cal. App. 306 - Young v. Young · Brown v. Navarre · 276 Ga. App. 862 - Municipal Electric Authority v. Gold-Arrow Farms, Inc. · 301 Ga. App. 367 - Record Town, Inc. v. Sugarloaf Mills Ltd. Partnership of Georgia

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.

  1. “The first rule of contract construction is to determine the parties’ intent, and if the language is clear the contract shall be enforced according to its clear terms. In fact, no construction is even permitted when the language employed by the parties in the contract is plain, unambiguous, and capable of only one reasonable interpretation.”
    2 later decisions 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.