129 Ga. App. 899 - Howell v. Ayers’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably Flintkote Company v. Dravo Corporation B F (1982), 139 Ga. App. 697 - UIV CORP. v. Oswald (1976)
22 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 Mauldin v. Sheffer · Housing Authority v. Ayers · Bodin v. Gill · Owens v. Nichols · Doster v. Brown
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“imposes upon persons of professional standing performing medical, architectural, engineering, and those performing other like and skilled services, pursuant to their contracts made with their clients, an obligation to exercise a reasonable degree of care, skill and ability, such as is ordinarily exercised under similar conditions and like circumstances by persons employed in the same or similar professions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`[a]s a general rule, there is implied in every contract for work or services a duty to perform it skilfully, carefully, diligently, and in a workmanlike manner.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“evidence here did not demand a finding that the . . . construction work was performed with a reasonable degree of care, skill and ability.”
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.