129 Ga. App. 249 - Bell v. Sigal’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2008
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 23 Ill. 2d 326 - Zostautas v. St. Anthony De Padua Hospital · 124 Ga. App. 242 - Bulloch County Hospital Authority v. Fowler · 20 Ga. App. 325 - Stokes v. Wright · Cox v. Travelers Insurance Company · 9 Ga. App. 450 - Glawson v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that the breach of a contract between doctor and patient may give rise to a right of action sounding in either tort or contract, and that, prior to the Civil Practice Act, the election to pursue either by the contracting party barred the other. Stokes v. Wright, 20 Ga. App. 325 ( 93 SE 27 ); Scott v. Simpson, 46 Ga. App. 479 (3) ( 167 SE 920 ). Election between remedies no longer applies. Cox v. Travelers Ins. Co., 228 Ga. 498 ( 186 SE2d 748 ).” In Scott v. Simpson, 46 Ga. App. 479 ( 167 SE 920 ), this court held:”
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.