182 Ga. App. 379 - Smith v. Hawks’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably 188 W. Va. 468 - Bowling v. Ansted Chrysler-Plymouth-Dodge, Inc. (1992), 280 Ga. App. 19 - Insight Technology, Inc. v. FREIGHTCHECK, LLC (2006)
2 federal appellate · 24 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 Citizens & Southern National Bank v. Haskins · 148 Ga. App. 61 - Bone Construction Co. v. Lewis · 130 Ga. App. 407 - Lincoln Land Co. v. Palfery · 152 Ga. App. 105 - Casey v. Carrollton Ford Co. · Fitzpatrick v. Massee-Felton Lumber 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[When a corporate officer] demonstrat[es] the inapplicability of the `piercing the corporate veil' exception to the general rule of non-liability[,] ... personal liability to appellees as the result of the Corporation's operation ... can only be for such tortious acts as he personally committed or specifically directed be done.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“one who is damaged as the result of a tort that is actually committed by a corporate agent may sue either the individual agent, seeking to establish the agent’s personal liability for the damages, or the corporation, seeking to establish its vicarious liability for the torts of its agent, or the injured party can sue both.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that are committed in the prosecution of and within the scope of its business.”
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.