137 Ga. App. 720 - Clark v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2019
14 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 Myers v. Phillips · Lankford v. Holton · 109 Ga. App. 510 - Hightower v. Landrum · 126 Ga. App. 508 - Smith v. Tri-State Culvert Manufacturing Co. · 127 Ga. App. 877 - Waggoner v. Bevich
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this case, the husband’s cause of action for medical expenses and loss of his wife’s services are wholly derivative from the wife’s cause of action. [Citations omitted.] When the jury found for the wife, it, in effect, determined that the defendant had caused her injury. The uncontradicted evidence shows that those injuries caused the husband to incur substantial medical expenses and the husband to lose to some extent his wife’s services. In other words, the same jury’s verdict for the wife could not logically preclude those damages sought by the husband which are directly derivative from the wife’s claim. . . . We conclude that the jury verdicts here were inconsistent, repugnant and illegal, since under the evidence the verdict for the wife authorized and demanded a verdict in some amount for medical expense damages suffered by the husband as a derivative from the wife’s cause of action. Clark v. Wright, 137 Ga.App. 720, 722 , 224 S.E.2d 825, 826-27 (1976).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Such new trial, however, properly should be limited to the issue of damages since the original verdict established liability. [Cits.]”
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.