102 Ga. App. 518 - Roberts v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently September 2009 · most notably 229 Ga. App. 160 - Desai v. Silver Dollar City, Inc. (1997), 200 Ga. App. 822 - Beringause v. Fogleman Truck Lines, Inc. (1991)
3 federal appellate · 45 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 Knipfer v. Shaw · Central Railroad & Banking Co. v. Denson · 98 Ga. App. 317 - Landers v. French's Ice Cream Co. · 85 Ga. App. 549 - Williams v. Owens · Young v. South Georgia Railway Co.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the evidence in this case the drivers ... were guilty of wilful and wanton misconduct in racing on a public highway contrary to the laws of the State.... When one assumes the risk of the wilful and wanton misconduct of another a recovery on the basis of such misconduct is precluded and the law will not undertake to divide the wantonness into degrees or fractions of degrees to ascertain whether the death or injury resulting was fully realized and appreciated by the one so assuming the risks. The law will hold such a one to have assumed whatever risks develop in the process of the activity engaged in. 7”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Assumption of risk is `a matter of knowledge of the danger and intelligent acquiescence in it' ...”
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.