127 Ga. App. 687 - Johnson v. Curenton’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2004
24 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 107 Ga. App. 178 - McCarty v. National Life & Accident Insurance · Burnette Ford, Inc. v. Hayes · 119 Ga. App. 513 - Chandler v. Gately · Western & Atlantic Railroad v. Evans · Town of Douglasville v. Skinner
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The evidence having shown that the plaintiff was completely free of negligence and defendant’s testimony having revealed no legal reason or excuse for his failure to avoid colliding with the rear of the plaintiff’s automobile, the trial judge did not err in directing a verdict for the plaintiff on the question of liability.”
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.