145 Ga. App. 22 - Sutton v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Lau's Corp., Inc. v. Haskins (1991), 158 Ga. App. 166 - Pound v. Augusta National, Inc. (1981)
32 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 110 Ga. App. 170 - Gibson v. Consolidated Credit Corp. · 93 Ga. App. 466 - Goldsmith v. Hazelwood · 103 Ga. App. 286 - Georgia Bowling Enterprises, Inc. v. Robbins · 134 Ga. App. 856 - Chatham v. Larkins · 118 Ga. App. 85 - Flowers v. Flowers
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he test should be whether the one incident was of such a nature as to cause a reasonably prudent person to believe the animal was sufficiently dangerous as to be likely to cause an injury at a later time. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to foresee and warn against dangers which are not reasonably expected, and which would not occur except under exceptional circumstances or from unexpected acts of the person injured.”
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.