174 Ga. App. 690 - Arrowsmith v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2016
7 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 158 Ga. App. 820 - Melton v. LaCalamito · 172 Ga. App. 771 - Sossenko v. Michelin Tire Corp. · 155 Ga. App. 862 - Georgia Power Company v. Johnson · 133 Ga. App. 181 - Hardaway v. Sherman Enterprises, Inc. · 148 Ga. App. 220 - Zakas v. Mills
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress is recognized in this state, where the defendant’s actions were so terrifying or insulting as naturally to humiliate, embarrass, or frighten the plaintiff.”); Arrowsmith v. Williams, 174 Ga.App. 690, 692 , 331 S.E.2d 30 (quoting Sossenko v. Michelin Tire Corp., 172 Ga.App. 771 , 324 S.E.2d 593 (1984)) (”
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.