118 Ga. App. 11 - Mullis v. Chaika’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 131 Ga. App. 321 - Gilson v. Mitchell (1974), Aretz v. United States (1979)
9 federal appellate · 20 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 Williams v. Grier · Mayor of Macon v. Dykes · 114 Ga. App. 817 - Hardwick v. Price · 112 Ga. App. 627 - Ware v. Alston · 79 Ga. App. 302 - Milton Bradley Co. of Ga. v. Cooper
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the duty of the trial court, whether requested or not, to give the jury appropriate instructions on every substantial and vital issue presented by the evidence, and on every theory of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A jury question is presented if reasonable minds might disagree as to whether specified conduct amounts to negligence and whether, if so, it was the proximate cause of the injury. [Citations.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The chain of causation is not broken by an intervening act which is a normal reaction to the stimulus of a situation created by negligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Corey v. Jones
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.