120 Ga. App. 466 - Williams v. Melton’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 1980
14 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 Ginn v. Morgan · Harrison v. Tuggle · 119 Ga. App. 734 - Truluck v. Funderburk
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W^hether the defendant was negligent or acted in an ordinarily skillful manner as a physician... in advising the husband of the risks involved in treatment and obtaining his consent for treatment, including surgery,... depends ultimately upon evaluation of expert medical opinions.” Williams v. Melton, 120 Ga. App. 466 ( 171 SE2d 318 ). The”
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.