116 Ga. App. 111 - Glean v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2001
21 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 Kuhns v. Brugger · 108 Ga. App. 766 - Assurance Co. of America v. Bell · Cook v. Southern Railway Co. · 77 Ga. App. 643 - Clinton v. Gunn-Willis Lumber Co. · Mills v. Central of Georgia 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It seems to be generally recognized, as a general principle of law, that one using or handling any instrumentality of an unusual or dangerous character is bound to take exceptional precautions to prevent injury thereby, and that children of tender years and youthful persons generally are entitled to a degree of care proportioned to their ability to foresee and avoid the perils that may be thus encountered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“as to an infant, the owner of premise, on which a dangerous thing exists may in legal duty be bound to use a greater quantum of precaution in behalf of such infant licensee than he would in behalf of an adult invited guest.”
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.