126 Ga. App. 866 - Cochran v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2018
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 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.
“[t]he law infers bodily pain and suffering from personal injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“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.