172 Ga. App. 501 - Soucy v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2010
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 170 Ga. App. 816 - Harris v. Star Service & Petroleum Co. · 166 Ga. App. 95 - Whirlpool Corp. v. Hurlbut · 121 Ga. App. 739 - Smith v. Bel-Arbor, Inc. · 107 Ga. App. 377 - Barrow v. James · 152 Ga. App. 434 - Doke v. Dover Elevator Co.
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.
“Although the issue of the plaintiff's exercise of due diligence for his own safety is ordinarily reserved for the jury, it may be summarily adjudicated where the plaintiff's knowledge of the risk is clear and palpable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a breach of such duty will not give rise to liability to a plaintiff who could have avoided injury to himself by the exercise of ordinary care.”
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.