97 Ga. App. 378 - Watson v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 1970
7 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 Hecht v. Snook & Austin Furniture Co. · Smith v. Ferrario · Ragan v. Standard Scale Co. · Medlock v. Aycock · Cornett v. Ault
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the cause of action set forth in the petition was on a sealed promissory note, with a copy of the note sued on attached as an exhibit, and where the copy so attached showed that it was payable in fixed monthly instalments, beginning on June 4, 1955, and payable thereafter on the fourth day of each succeeding month, and where the instrument sued on provided that in the event of a default in any payment the holder could declare the unpaid balance due and payable, and that time was of the essence of the contract, and where the petition sought the recovery of a specific sum of money plus a specified amount as accrued interest, the allegation that the defendant had failed and refused to make any payment on the indebtedness `since August, 1956,' the petition being sworn to on February 20, 1957, was not subject to demurrer.”
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.