104 Ga. App. 442 - Hunt v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently March 1996 · most notably 107 Ga. App. 717 - Thomas v. Barnett (1963), 128 Ga. App. 178 - Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Luther (1973)
3 federal appellate · 40 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 Powell v. Augusta & Summerville Railroad · City Council of Augusta v. Owens · 101 Ga. App. 141 - Jones v. Hutchins · Citizens Bank v. Mitcham · City of Manchester v. Rowe
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`While proof of the plaintiff's actual earnings, either before or after the injury, is not essential to the establishment of the value of the plaintiff's decreased earning capacity, there must nevertheless appear some evidence, either direct or circumstantial, tending to show what the plaintiff was capable of earning both before and after the injury....' [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there is evidence of the plaintiff's earnings before the injury, the amount and nature of her work, the percentage of disability resulting from the injury, and the manner in which her earning capacity has been decreased as a result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“permanent impairment of earning capacity.”
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.