Warmack v. Mini-Skools Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2008
14 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. 562 - Southeastern Fidelity Insurance v. Stevens · 133 Ga. App. 514 - Shannon v. Kaylor · 139 Ga. App. 575 - Georgia International Life Insurance v. Boney · 106 Ga. App. 631 - Travelers Insurance v. Hutchens · 135 Ga. App. 787 - Clarkson Industries, Inc. v. Price
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally, `(w)here reliance is made upon circumstantial evidence alone for proof of one of the essential facts assumed in the framing of a hypothetical question, the trier of fact may consider the answer to the question only if it has first determined that the assumed fact has been satisfactorily established.' Travelers Ins. Co. v. Hutchens, 106 Ga.App. 631 , 127 S.E.2d 712 (1962). The trier of fact, and not the court, decides whether the assumed fact is actually proved by the circumstantial evidence. Shannon v. Kaylor, 133 Ga.App. 514 ( 211 SE2d 368 ) (1974). Nevertheless, it is for the court to decide whether a conclusion assumed is at least supported by the circumstantial evidence before allowing the matter to go to the jury [or factfinder] for its determination as to whether the evidence actually established the fact. Southeastern Fidelity Ins. Co. v. Stevens, 142 Ga.App. 562 ( 236 SE2d 550 ) (1977).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whether a conclusion assumed is at least supported by the circumstantial evidence before allowing the matter to go to the jury for its determination as to whether the evidence actually established the fact. [Cit.]”
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.