129 Ga. App. 113 - Layton v. Knight’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1990
10 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 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.
“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“means such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“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.