84 Ga. App. 319 - Smith v. Goodwin’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 1994
5 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Rainey v. Moon · Moody v. Moody · 72 Ga. App. 623 - Wofford v. Vandiver · 82 Ga. App. 770 - Roe v. Pitts · Murdock v. Hunt
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“construing [the predecessor subsections of (a) (2) and (a) (3)] together, it is obvious that the next of kin referred to [in (a) (2)] are `next of kin . . . interested as distributees of the estate.' [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“next of kin .. . according to the law declaring relationship and distribution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`next of kin . . . interested as distributees of the estate,'”
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.