102 Ga. App. 66 - Long Construction Co. v. Ryals’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 1980 · most notably 112 Ga. App. 151 - Malcom v. Malcolm (1965), 122 Ga. App. 90 - Chastain v. Atlanta Gas Light Co. (1970)
3 federal appellate · 39 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 3 Ga. App. 161 - Rollestone v. Cassirer & Co. · 87 Ga. App. 280 - Harvey v. Zell · 85 Ga. App. 107 - Bazemore v. MacDougald Construction Co. · 89 Ga. App. 68 - Casteel v. Anderson · 78 Ga. App. 370 - Montgomery v. Southern 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sufficient to present a jury question as to whether under the application of the last clear chance doctrine the negligence of the plaintiff in placing himself in peril and in not discovering it until too late, was too remote to be considered as a contributing cause of the injury, and as to whether or not the negligence of the appellant's agent in failing to discover the plaintiff's peril and take steps to avoid the same”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where, from the actions of the person injured and others on the curbside observed by him, he [the defendant] may reasonably anticipate that someone would get in the street ahead of his vehicle, he may, under such circumstances, be chargeable with negligence in failing to take appropriate steps to avoid injuring such person, or persons.”
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.