127 Ga. App. 735 - Smith v. Poteet’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 2012
16 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 Anderson v. Southern Railway Co. · 113 Ga. App. 642 - Georgia Power Co. v. Maddox · 70 Ga. App. 798 - McNabb v. State · Blair v. Smith · Golosh v. Cherokee Cab Company
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`an essential purpose of Rule 51 is to permit counsel to argue intelligently upon the evidence, within the framework of the applicable law, and also, by reason of advance notice as to the disposition of requests for instructions, to alert him to take appropriate exceptions following delivery of the charge.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Whether the contract gives, or the employer assumes the right to control the time, manner, and method of executing the work, as distinguished from the right merely to require certain definite results in corformity to the contract.”
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.