154 Ga. App. 54 - Brooks v. Douglas’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2008
24 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 Burnette Ford, Inc. v. Hayes · 121 Ga. App. 259 - Wakefield v. AR Winter Co., Inc. · Ham v. Ham · Chambers v. Citizens & Southern National Bank · Atlanta, Knoxville & Northern Railway Co. v. Wilson
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not essential that the joint tortfeasors owed the same duty or should be guilty of the same act of negligence. It is sufficient if each owed a separate and distinct duty to the person injured, provided only that the separate acts of negligence concurred in proximately causing the injury. Lansky v. Goldstein, 136 Ga. App. 607, 608 ( 222 SE2d 62 ) (1975).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“One who recklessly tests an observed and clearly obvious peril is guilty of lack of ordinary care.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“would not be undertaken by an ordinarily prudent person.”
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.