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129 Ga. App. 113 - Layton v. Knight’s Empirical Analysis

1973

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
July 1990
most recently cited

10 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1990

10 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 Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · 107 Ga. App. 178 - McCarty v. National Life & Accident Insurance · 1 Ga. App. 714 - Georgia Railway & Electric Co. v. Harris · 64 Ga. App. 554 - Minnick v. Jackson · 64 Ga. App. 31 - Goldstein v. Johnson

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

  1. “It is basic that an inference can be drawn only from a fact and that whether a fact will authorize a particular inference is a matter of law ... [The court must determine] `whether the evidence reasonably establishes a given theory ... There must be more than a "scintilla”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “means such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “of circumstances to carry the case to the jury. [Cits.] More than a”
    2 later decisions 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.