172 Ga. App. 459 - Smith v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently June 2000
2 district · 16 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 McCall v. Allstate Insurance · 154 Ga. App. 165 - Moss v. Cincinnati Insurance · Wilkinson v. Vigilant Insurance Company · 120 Ga. App. 762 - Farr v. Farr · 136 Ga. App. 583 - Houston v. Doe
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]nasmuch as the statutory/judicial scheme which has evolved requires a determination of the uninsured motorist's tort liability before a UMC can be held accountable on its contractual obligation to its insured, we cannot agree . . . that entry of judgment against the tortfeasor/uninsured motorist is a meaningless step.”
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.