129 Ga. App. 481 - Hodges v. Youmans’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably 145 Ga. App. 175 - Ginn v. Citizens & Southern National Bank (1978), Hospital Authority v. Jones (1989)
37 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 Coy v. Superior Court · 116 Ga. App. 733 - Saunders v. Vikers · Watkins v. Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance · 121 Ga. App. 147 - Werbin & Tenenbaum, Inc. v. Heard · Baldwin v. Davis
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This would not appear to be a situation in which the `entire injury' is to his `peace, happiness or feelings.' However. . . [s]hould plaintiff elect to press at trial only a claim properly within [OCGA § 51-12-6], then properly drawn interrogatories searching into a defendant's wealth could be appropriate and the answers admissible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“may be invoked only where the entire injury is to the peace, happiness, or feelings of the plaintiff a requirement that case law has left substantially undefined.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a vague welter of tort claims . . . including personal torts and allegations of injury to property and business interests.”
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.