131 Ga. App. 321 - Gilson v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Azure Ex Rel. Marchington v. City of Billings (1979), Mitchell v. Volkswagenwerk, AG (1982)
12 federal appellate · 55 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 Georgia Power Co. v. Puckett · Knight v. Lowery · 33 Ga. App. 411 - Scearce v. Mayor of Gainesyille · Register v. Stone's Independent Oil Distributors, Inc. · Southeastern Truck Lines, Inc. v. Rann
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this State ... it is not necessary that there be intentional concert or simultaneous action among those sought to be held jointly liable for injury. All that is required is that negligent acts, although separate and independent, be found to have combined naturally and directly to produce a single injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if the separate and independent acts of negligence of several persons combine naturally and directly to produce a single indivisible injury, and a rational basis does not exist for an apportionment of damages, the actors are joint tortfeasors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]t has always been true that where concert of action appears, a joint tortfeasor relation is presented and all joint tortfeasors are jointly and severally liable for the full amount of plaintiff's damage.”
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.