118 Ga. App. 690 - Davis v. Ferrell’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1992
3 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 Powell v. Berry · 116 Ga. App. 237 - Freeman v. Martin · Douglas v. Sumner · 116 Ga. App. 389 - Dykes v. Hammock · 109 Ga. App. 334 - Sparks v. Porcher
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“mere knowledge on the part of a passenger that the driver is under the influence of intoxicating beverages is not, as a matter of law, knowledge that such person is so much under the influence of intoxicants as not to be able to drive safely . . . so as to make the passenger guilty of such . . . assumption of risk, as will bar a recovery against the driver . . ..”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eason v. Weaver
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.