85 Ga. App. 721 - Wright v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably Goller v. White (1963), 45 Cal. 2d 421 - Emery v. Emery (1955)
6 federal appellate · 60 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Dunlap v. Dunlap · Johnson v. Johnson · Small Ex Rel. Balthis v. Morrison · Fiedler v. Fiedler · 19 Ga. App. 634 - Heyman v. Heyman
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““However, the rule, despite the long line of authority supporting it, has been subjected to considerable cri ticism in some of the more recent decisions, and the tendency seems to be to repudiate or modify it whenever its' application' is found to be out of line with modern conditions'.”^”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chesonis v. Chesonis““We therefore hold that there is not, in this State, any right of action in one spouse against another for a personal tort not involving any property right, and that this is true regardless of the fact that the tort is wantonly and maliciously inflicted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Oshiek v. Oshiek
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.