123 Ga. App. 712 - Smith v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2011
6 federal appellate · 11 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 93 Ga. App. 159 - Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Coxwell · 80 Ga. App. 618 - Chavers v. State · Nottingham v. Wrigley · 32 Ga. App. 37 - Brinson v. Davis · 5 Ga. App. 722 - Finley v. Southern Railway Co.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A more accurate way of stating the rule, perhaps, is that where the jury is authorized to find joint liability if a new trial is to be granted to one the indivisible character of the judgment requires that it be granted to all; but if there is a finding of no liability as to one defendant, a reversal as to him does not require a new trial as to others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in every event an unobstructed width of the highway opposite a standing vehicle shall be left for the free passage of other vehicles.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wallace v. Ener“If heretofore we have, on occasion, been more restrictive than the statute our rulings should yield to the statute.”
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.