159 Ga. App. 352 - Dinnan v. Totis’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2019
8 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 Dawes Mining Co. v. Callahan · 117 Ga. App. 192 - King v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company · First National Bank & Trust Co. v. Falligant · 153 Ga. App. 765 - Sams v. Duncan & Copeland, Inc. · 136 Ga. App. 651 - Management Search, Inc. v. Morgan
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The applicable principles may be summarized as follows. Fringe benefits are an inherent part of compensation. Payments by employers of employees’ pension contributions, and insurance policies, both life and health, have all become vital ingredients of employment. Such payments can no longer be considered as gratuities or voluntary since they are essential elements of most compensation arrangements in that they benefit both the employer and the employee.... We, therefore, hold that even though the employee in this case did not make direct contributions to the premium payment, there was a basis for finding the employer breached a duty to its employee when it failed to make the premium payments and allowed the policy to lapse without giving reasonable notification to its employee concerning the lapse. For this reason, a verdict against defendant corporation was authorized by the evidence.”
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.