110 Ga. App. 413 - Cohen v. Sapp’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 1998
8 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 Hardeman v. Ellis · Childers v. Ackerman Construction Co. · 89 Ga. App. 718 - Krasner v. O'DELL · Savannah, Florida & Western Rwy. Co. v. Smith · King 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A request to charge must embody a correct, applicable and complete statement of law, legal and perfect in form and adjusted to the pleadings and evidence; it must not be argumentative or seek an expression of opinion on the part of the court; and it must not be so phrased as to have tendency to confuse and mislead the jury or to becloud the issues in the case. [Cits.]” Cohen v. Sapp, 110 Ga. App. 413, 415 ( 138 SE2d 749 ). (10) The nineteenth enumeration avers the trial court erred in instructing the jury”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If a tort shall be committed upon the person or reputation of the wife, the husband or wife may recover therefor; if the wife shall be living separate from the husband, she may sue for such torts and also torts to her children, and recover the same to her use.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
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.