147 Ga. App. 875 - Fields v. B & B PIPELINE CO.’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2007
9 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 Atlanta & Florida Railroad v. Kimberly · 91 Ga. App. 738 - Southern Mills, Inc. v. Newton · 146 Ga. App. 300 - Tect Construction Co. v. Frymyer · 140 Ga. App. 430 - Stratton & McLendon, Inc. v. CAMERON-BROWN COMPANY · 145 Ga. App. 136 - Spearman v. Jaudon
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“and the necessity that such contractual obligation be placed upon the particular employer as opposed to any independent contractor . . . Since (the contractual) duty could be discharged in any effective manner, any act of the subcontractor in negligently (damaging Fields' walnut trees [or here damaging Faubion's inventory]) would be a collateral tort for which the prime contractor would not be liable because this would not be a violation of an express contract obligation falling within the exception provided in [OCGA § 51-2-5]. [Cits.]'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[U]nless the parties stand in the relation of master and servant, the employer is not responsible for the damages occasioned by the negligent mode in which work is done. [Cits.] `Also, the cases which have construed the statutory exception in [OCGA § 51-2-5] have emphasized the word”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`grantee . . . shall exercise reasonable diligence in doing the necessary work in connection therewith so as to avoid damaging the property . . .'”
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.