120 Ga. App. 39 - Trussell v. Lawrence’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 106 Ga. App. 1 - Holland v. Sanfax Corporation · Powell v. Berry · Watkins v. Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance · 117 Ga. App. 331 - Colonial Stores, Inc. v. Turner · 116 Ga. App. 237 - Freeman v. Martin
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 7 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.