127 Ga. App. 668 - Cagle v. Atchley’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 1997 · most notably Polito v. Holland (1988), Kathleen G. O'Gee v. Dobbs Houses, Inc., and Third-Party v. United Air Lines, Inc., Third-Party and Cross-Appellant (1978)
3 federal appellate · 20 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 Hudson v. Hudson · Huckabee v. Grace · Nashville, Chattanooga & Saint Louis Railway Co. v. Miller · State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia · 96 Ga. App. 652 - Limbert v. Bishop
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nder the `collateral source rule' payments made, either voluntarily or contractually, by a third party who was not a joint tortfeasor would not serve to diminish a tortfeasor's liability. Wachtel v. Leonard, 45 Ga.App. 14(1) ( 163 SE 512 ); Thompson v. Milam, 115 Ga.App. 396, 397 ( 154 SE2d 721 ); Cincinnati, N.O. etc. R. Co. v. Hilley, 121 Ga.App. 196, 201 ( 173 SE2d 242 ); N.C. & St. L.R. Co. v. Miller, 120 Ga. 453 (1-3) ( 47 SE 959 , 67 LRA 87, 1 AC 210); State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Board of Regents, 226 Ga. 310, 311 ( 174 SE2d 920 ).”
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.