115 Ga. App. 10 - Hopper v. McCord’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 1995
2 federal appellate · 7 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 Shea v. Phillips · 108 Ga. App. 360 - Hayes v. Brown · 27 Ga. App. 494 - Davis v. Carter · Rabun v. Wynn · Smith v. Overby
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Now, I have prepared a form of verdict in which two questions are involved. Of course, those two questions are the key to the case. Now one is: 'In treating the injuries received by the plaintiff, David Larry Wolfe, did Dr. Virusky exercise the degree of care and skill ordinarily employed by the medical profession generally under similar circumstances'? You will answer that 'Yes', or 'No', . . . . The second question is: 'If question one is answered 'Yes,' that is to say, if Dr. Virusky is liable, you will have to answer it. If your answer to question one is 'No,' you do not have to answer this second question. 'Was there any fraud by Dr. Virusky which deterred the plaintiff in this case from filing a suit for malpractice until more than two years after the medical treatment complained of'? Your answer to that would be 'Yes' or 'No.' As I say, you would not answer that question unless you answered the first question 'Yes'.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“merely instructing the jury that the burden was on the plaintiff to prove his case as alleged in his petition.”
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.