Aultman v. Spellmeyer’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
February 1988
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ellison v. Georgia Railroad · City of Atlanta v. First Presbyterian Church · Smith v. Beavers · 108 Ga. App. 651 - Brown v. Kirkland · 48 Ga. App. 738 - McCord v. Benford
Most-quoted passages
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“In City of Atlanta v. First Presbyterian Church, 86 Ga. 730, 733 ( 13 SE 252 , 12 LRA 852) Chief Justice Bleckley wrote `Courts, like individuals, but with more caution and deliberation, must sometimes reconsider what has been already carefully considered, and rectify their own mistakes.' And again in another case the same Chief Justice said, `Some courts live by correcting the errors of others and adhering to their own...At the peril of their lives they must discover error abroad and be discreetly blind to its commission at home.' Ellison v. Georgia R. Co., 87 Ga. 691, 695-696 (13 Se 809). These admonitions are but another way of saying honestly that appellate courts are courts for the correction of errors including their own.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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