174 Ga. App. 587 - Pettus v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2004
6 federal appellate · 6 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 120 Ga. App. 420 - Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Beaver · Drost v. Robinson · 118 Ga. App. 672 - Shockley v. Zayre of Atlanta, Inc. · 110 Ga. App. 607 - Benefield v. Malone · 167 Ga. App. 278 - Wade v. Thomasville Orthopedic Clinic, Inc.
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.
“[a]s the county commissioners had no control over the official duties of the deputy sheriff ..., they had no duty to determine whether a high-speed driving course rather than a defensive driving course was reasonably required to be supplied to deputy sheriffs”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If the trial court makes a finding of fact which is unsupported by the record, it cannot be upheld; and if the judgment is based upon a fact for which there is no evidence, it should be reversed.”
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.