112 Ga. App. 627 - Ware v. Alston’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 1997 · most notably 169 Ga. App. 338 - Chadwick v. Miller (1983), 118 Ga. App. 11 - Mullis v. Chaika (1968)
3 federal appellate · 35 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 66 Ga. App. 229 - Cone v. Davis · 68 Ga. App. 142 - Morrow v. Southeastern Stages Inc. · 19 Ga. App. 413 - Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Larsen · Pacetti v. Central of Georgia Railway Co. · Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Stafford
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hether an emergency existed or not, that issue, like all questions of diligence, negligence, contributory negligence and proximate cause except in plain and indisputable cases, was a question for determination by the jury. [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'There is generally no liability for an unavoidable accident, which is defined as one which under all the circumstances could not have been prevented by the exercise of reasonable care.’ [Cit.] 'In its proper use the term”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`may properly be defined as any event or combination of circumstances which call for immediate action without giving time for the deliberate exercise of judgment or discretion, in short, an exigency.'”
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.