164 Ga. App. 236 - Haynes v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2009 · most notably Smith v. Finch (2009), 170 Ga. App. 581 - Georgia Kraft Co. v. Laborers' International Union of North America, Local Union 246 (1984)
31 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 142 Ga. App. 827 - Ramsey v. Mercer · Blount v. Moore · 151 Ga. App. 506 - Myers v. Boleman · 118 Ga. App. 414 - Seagraves v. ABCO Manufacturing Co. · 159 Ga. App. 302 - Hawkins v. Greenberg
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule is that where one voluntarily and knowingly takes a risk involving imminent danger he is precluded from recovery by reason of another's negligence. The defense of assumption of risk requires: (1) that the plaintiff had some actual knowledge of the danger; (2) that he understood and appreciated the risk therefrom, and (3) that he voluntarily exposed himself to such risk. Stated another way: The doctrine of the assumption of the risk of danger applies only where the plaintiff, with a full appreciation of the danger involved and without restriction from his freedom of choice either by the circumstances or by coercion, deliberately chooses an obviously perilous course of conduct so that it can be said as a matter of law he has assumed all risk of injury.”
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.