161 Ga. App. 778 - Jester v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2016
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 147 Ga. App. 562 - Brewer v. Southeastern Fidelity Insurance · Burch v. Americus Grocery Co. · Planters' Rice-Mill Co. v. Merchants' National Bank · Patterson v. Southern Railway Co. · 85 Ga. App. 392 - Commercial Credit Corp. v. Noles
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[a]n estoppel will arise when a principal places an agent in a position of apparent authority, so that a person of ordinary prudence conversant with business usages and the nature of the particular business is justified in assuming that such agent has authority to perform a particular act and deals with the agent upon that assumption. Commercial Credit Corp. v. Noles, 85 Ga.App. 392, 396 ( 69 SE2d 309 ).'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a poor general reputation in the insurance community.”
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.