181 Ga. App. 382 - Jacobsen v. Muller’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably 280 Ga. App. 676 - All Fleet Refinishing, Inc. v. West Georgia National Bank (2006), 183 Ga. App. 866 - GEORGIA MARBLE COMPANY v. Warren (1987)
2 federal appellate · 28 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 Southland Butane Gas Co. v. Blackwell · 164 Ga. App. 215 - St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. Mitchell · 175 Ga. App. 538 - Long v. Adams · 157 Ga. App. 666 - Premium Distributing Co. v. National Distributing Co. · 165 Ga. App. 635 - Jones v. Rodzewicz
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even if a psychological therapist-patient relationship did exist, it appears that liability for malpractice could follow only if it were shown that this fiduciary relationship was exploited by (1) so gaining the trust and confidence of the patient as to deprive her of her free will ..., and (2) the sexual intimacy is connected with the plan of treatment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“plaintiff knew that the personal relationship which was fostered was beyond the scope of Muller's duties as a job counselor, and yet she responded positively. She condoned whatever legal breaches were committed and participated....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“OCGA § 9-11-29.1 (a) (5) does not make certification a prerequisite to the use of discovery material in support of a motion,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bandy v. Mills
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.