Hanna v. McWilliams

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• statute of limitation barred homeowner’s suit against contractor and fireplace seller for defective fireplace installed in his home more than four years earlier
• “[t]he discovery rule no longer applies to suits merely for real property damage; this is true whether a statute of repose exists”
• defendant contractors were entitled to summary judgment because more than eight years had elapsed between the substantial completion of the allegedly defective fireplace and the plaintiffs suit
• summary judgment right for any reason must be affirmed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

42 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Orkin Exterminating Co. v. McIntosh
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-11-30· cited 53×
• Coffey v. Brooks County
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-09-14· cited 34×
• COLLINS v. ATHENS ORTHOPEDIC CLINIC, P.A
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-12-23· cited 32×
• Gill v. B & R International, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-09-25· cited 30×
• Parker v. Brush Wellman, Inc.
  N.D. Georgia· 2005-03-29· cited 30×
• Orion Capital Partners, L. P. v. Westinghouse Electric Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-10-29· cited 28×
• Bishop v. Farhat
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-06-17· cited 25×
• Colormatch Exteriors, Inc. v. Hickey
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2002-06-10· cited 23×
• Russaw v. Martin
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-06-12· cited 22×
• Travis Pruitt & Associates, P. C. v. Bowling
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-05-25· cited 18×
• Drawdy v. Department of Transportation
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-09-02· cited 17×
• Mitchell v. Jones
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-10-24· cited 15×
• Canberg v. City of Toccoa
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-05-24· cited 14×
• Owens v. Hewell
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-08-20· cited 14×
• Metlife v. Wright
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-03-15· cited 10×
• Hall v. Harris
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-08-11· cited 10×
• Howard v. McFarland
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-04-01· cited 10×
• Moore v. Meeks
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-03-07· cited 10×
• Logan v. Tucker
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-01-17· cited 9×
• Mitchell v. Contractors Specialty Supply, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-01-22· cited 8×

Cites

21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Precise v. City of Rossville
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-04-15· cited 89×
• King v. Seitzingers, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-10-20· cited 80×
• Mullis v. Southern Co. Services, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-10-27· cited 73×
• MALAGA Management Co. v. John Deere Co.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-05-27· cited 57×
• Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co. v. Pattillo Construction Co.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-05-30· cited 39×
• U-Haul Co. v. Abreu & Robeson, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1981-04-29· cited 37×
• Benning Construction Co. v. Lakeshore Plaza Enterprises, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-12-05· cited 34×
• Atlanta Gas Light Co. v. City of Atlanta
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-10-02· cited 25×
• Fort Oglethorpe Associates II, Ltd. v. Hails Construction Co.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-07-26· cited 16×
• Ferguson v. Miller
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-11-19· cited 13×
• Boyd v. Orkin Exterminating Co.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-03-06· cited 12×
• Millard Matthews Builders, Inc. v. PLANT IMPROVEMENT COMPANY, INC.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-09-09· cited 11×
• Andel v. Getz Services, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-10-30· cited 9×
• Heffernan v. Johnson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-06-23· cited 8×
• Broadfoot v. Aaron Rents, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-03-14· cited 6×
• Griffin v. Kangaroo, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-03-09· cited 6×
• Beall v. INCLINATOR COMPANY OF AMERICA, INC.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-04-17· cited 5×
• Broadfoot v. Aaron Rents, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-02-25· cited 5×
• MILES INSURANCE & REALTY COMPANY v. Gilstrap
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-07-15· cited 4×
• Broadfoot v. Citizens & Southern National Bank
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-03-18· cited 3×