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126 Ga. App. 866 - Cochran v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis

1972

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
April 2018
most recently cited

11 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2018

11 state decisions

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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 Myers v. Phillips · 3 Ga. App. 548 - Southern Railway Co. v. Tankersley · 64 Ga. App. 149 - Ocean Accident Guarantee Corporation v. Lane · City of Manchester v. Rowe · Amis v. Cameron

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[t]he law infers bodily pain and suffering from personal injury.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “a jury is not bound to accept and credit the testimony of a witness who is a party to the litigation. . . and . . . a fact-finding body . . . is not bound to accept and credit the testimony of an expert, such as a physician . . . , positive and direct testimony of an unimpeached witness cannot be arbitrarily rejected by a jury. [Cits.]”
    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.