Palmer v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently November 1988 · most notably 132 Ga. App. 512 - Bennett v. Haley (1974), 119 Ga. App. 697 - Jones v. Cloud (1969)
6 federal appellate · 56 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 Southland Butane Gas Co. v. Blackwell · Metropolitan Street Railroad v. Johnson · City of Valdosta v. Singleton · 113 Ga. App. 642 - Georgia Power Co. v. Maddox · Moore v. McAfee
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defendant might have been found negligent in failing to keep a proper lookout ahead and in failing to anticipate [the pedestrian’s] presence on the highway. . .” Id., p. 400. See also Conner v. Mangum, 132 Ga. App. 100 (5, 6) ( 207 SE2d 604 ). As to the”
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.