117 Ga. App. 47 - Horton v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Southland Butane Gas Co. v. Blackwell · Western & Atlantic Railroad v. Michael · Rodney v. Staman · Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Tapley · 19 Ga. App. 634 - Heyman v. Heyman
Most-quoted passages
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“purporting to draw a circle around all the members of a family as a class, allowing a suit for the wrongful death of one of these members only against someone outside the circle (class).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“If this court's decision in Harrell v. Gardner , ... cited in the majority opinion, requires the result reached here then in my opinion it should be re-examined.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“law on this question is not simply what the judges of this court think the law should be, but what the General Assembly has said it is.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
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