185 Ga. App. 351 - Whitehead v. Cuffie’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably 201 Ga. App. 514 - Mauldin v. Weinstock (1991), 243 Ga. App. 449 - Szurovy v. Olderman (2000)
26 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 Bradley Center, Inc. v. Wessner · Posey v. Medical Center-West, Inc. · Jankowski v. Taylor, Bishop & Lee · Hamilton v. Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy · 182 Ga. App. 107 - Candler General Hospital, Inc. v. McNorrill
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a legal duty to conform to a standard of conduct raised by the law for the protection of others against unreasonable risks of harm; (2) a breach of this standard; (3) a legally attributable causal connection between the conduct and the resulting injury; and (4) some loss or damage flowing to the plaintiffs legally protected interest as a result of the alleged breach of the legal duty.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is well-established Georgia law that before an action for a tort will lie, the plaintiff must show he sustained injury or damage as a result of the negligent act or omission to act in some duty owed to him.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although nominal damages can be awarded where there has been an injury but the injury is small, ... where there is no evidence of injury accompanying the tort, an essential element of the tort is lacking, thereby entitling the defendant to judgment in his favor.”
2 later decisions 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.