Bates v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 state decisions

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

1. ““Under Georgia law, a judgment entered by a court without jurisdiction is void, Carpenter v. Carpenter, 276 Ga. 746, 747 (1), 583 S.E.2d 852 (2003), and generally speaking, such a judgment ‘may be attacked in any court, by any person, at any time.’ James v. Intown Ventures, 290 Ga. 813, 816 (2) n. 5, 725 S.E.2d 213 (2012). See also Cabrel v. Lum, 289 Ga. 233, 235 (1), 710 S.E.2d 810 (2011) (‘[A] judgment void for lack of personal or subject-matter jurisdiction may be attacked at any time.’). But in some circumstances, these principles must yield to competing principles that derive from the compelling public interest in the finality and certainty of judgments, see Abushmais v. Erby, 282 Ga. 619, 622 (3), 652 S.E.2d 549 (2007), an interest that is especially compelling with respect to judgments affecting familial relations. See Amerson v. Vandi ver, 285 Ga. 49, 50 , 673 S.E.2d 850 (2009).””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ex parte E.L.

2. “is intended to protect the integrity of the judicial process by prohibiting parties from deliberately changing positions according to the exigencies of the moment, and it forbids [parties], who [have] successfully maintained a certain position in a legal proceeding, to assume a contrary position simply because [their] interests have changed especially if it be to the prejudice of the party who has acquiesced in the position formerly taken by [them].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Rimmer v. Tinch

3. “[a] judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction shall be conclusive between the same parties and their privies as to all matters put in issue or which under the rules of law might have been put in issue in the cause wherein the judgment was rendered.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 350 Ga. App. 826 - Bearoff v. Craton