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24 citation events (7 in the last 25 years) across 4 distinct courts.
Strongest positive: BARROW v. RAFFENSPERGER (Two Cases) (ga, 2020-05-14)
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Top citers, strongest first. 8 distinct citers.
examined Cited as authority (rule) BARROW v. RAFFENSPERGER (Two Cases) (3×) also: Cited "see"
Ga. · 2020 · confidence medium
Justice Blackwell’s office is conspicuously not “without an incumbent,” Clark, 298 Ga. at 896 , but instead “‘is supplied, in the manner provided by the constitution or law, with an incumbent who is legally qualified to exercise the powers and perform the duties which pertain to it.’” Pittman, 184 Ga. at 256-257 (citation omitted).
discussed Cited as authority (rule) Westley v. State
Ga. Ct. App. · 1977 · confidence medium
The public convenience controls, for, as the court stated in Smith & Bondurant v. Meador, 74 Ga. 416, 419 (1884): "[I]t is better for society that the act de facto stand than that the business of society, the title to property, be all wrecked, because parties did not know that the term of office of the public official expired the day before.” See Mitchell v. Pittman, 184 Ga. 877, 885 ( 194 SE 369 ) (1937).
cited Cited as authority (rule) Roan v. Rogers
Ga. · 1946 · confidence medium
Mitchell v. Pittman, 184 Ga. 877, 896 ( 194 S. E. 369 ).
discussed Cited "see" Hudson v. Abercrombie
N.D. Ga. · 1987 · signal: see · confidence high
See Brooks v. Brooks, 184 Ga. 872 , 193 S.E. 893 (1937) (outlining an exception to the general rule that probate court lacks jurisdiction to determine title to contested property).
cited Cited "see" Hartsfield v. Hartsfield
Ga. Ct. App. · 1953 · signal: see · confidence high
See Brooks v. Brooks, 184 Ga. 872 ( 193 S. E. 893 ).
cited Cited "see" Hooper v. Almand
Ga. · 1943 · signal: see · confidence high
See the authorities cited in Mitchell v. Pittman, 184 Ga. 877, 893 ( 194 S. E. 369 ).
discussed Cited "see, e.g." Kemp v. Gonzalez
Ga. · 2020 · signal: see also · confidence medium
See also Mitchell v. Pittman, 184 Ga. 877, 886 ( 194 SE 369 ) (1937) (Georgia Constitution of 1877 fixed four-year terms for elected judges until a successor was chosen according to “the regular method . . . [of] election by the people” (citation and punctuation omitted)).
discussed Cited "see, e.g." Fowler v. Cox
Ga. Ct. App. · 2003 · signal: see also · confidence low
OCGA § 53-7-55; that a “claim that an executor has breached a fiduciary duty [does] not fall outside the jurisdiction of the probate court simply because the plaintiff sought damages [,]” (footnote omitted) Heath v. Sims, 242 Ga. App. 691, 693 (1) ( 531 SE2d 115 ) (2000), for “original, exclusive, and general jurisdiction” of “[a] 11 . . . matters and things as appertain or relate to [the] estates of deceased persons . . .” resides in the probate court under OCGA § 15-9-30 (a) (10); and that, as to citations for settlement, a probate court may “hear evidence upon any . . . ques…
Gillis
v.
Vickers, ordinary
No. 11957.
Supreme Court of Georgia.
Nov 12, 1937.
193 S.E. 893
B. B. Chastain and B. A. Moore, for plaintiffs., Mingledorjf ■& Boberls, M. J. Yeomans, -attorney-general, W. H. Duckworth, and Dave M. Parker, for defendants.
Hutcheson.
Published
Hutcheson, Justice.

Under the circumstances of this case, and on application of the principles ruled in Aycock v. State ex. rel. Boykin, 184 Ga. 709 (193 S. E. 264), the judgment refusing to enjoin the election of June 8, 1937, is Affirmed.

All the Justices concur.