102 Ga. App. 733 - Bentley v. Ayers’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably State v. Betts (1974), 171 Ga. App. 83 - Reed v. Heffernan (1984)
3 federal appellate · 23 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 79 Ga. App. 460 - Baggett v. Jackson · Tipton v. Estill Ice Co. · Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Goens · 68 Ga. App. 320 - Walker v. Southeastern Stages Inc. · 92 Ga. App. 820 - Wilson v. Garrett
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . In a ruling on such a matter the trial judge must exercise his broad discretion. Not only is the length of time between the accident and evidence of intoxication an important factor but all other testimony relevant to such an issue, such as testimony that prior to the accident the defendant seemed to exercise a lack of control of his vehicle or that he had been seen drinking prior to the accident, and other such relevant testimony as would guide the trial judge in rendering his decision.” (P. 736.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Betts
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.