191 Ga. App. 166 - Coleman v. Housing Authority’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably GTE Southwest, Inc. v. Bruce (1999), Kerans v. Porter Paint Co. (1991)
5 federal appellate · 33 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 Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson · 176 Ga. App. 227 - Bridges v. Winn-Dixie Atlanta, Inc. · 187 Ga. App. 222 - Moses v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America · 165 Ga. App. 888 - Cox v. Brazo · Brazo v. Cox
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he workplace is not a free zone in which the duty not to engage in willfully and wantonly causing emotional distress through the use of abusive or obscene language does not exist. Actually, by its very nature, it provides an environment more prone to such occurrences because it provides a captive victim who may fear reprisal for complaining, so that the injury is exacerbated by repetition, and it presents a hierarchy of structured relationships which cannot easily be avoided. The opportunity for commission of the tort is more frequently presented in the workplace ....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) that the defendant’s behavior was willful and wanton and intentionally directed to harming the plaintiff; (2) that the actions of the defendant were such as would naturally humiliate, embarrass, frighten, or outrage the plaintiff; and (3) that the conduct caused mental suffering or wounded feelings or emotional upset or distress to the plaintiff.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Under Georgia law: A cause of action for negligence against an employer may be stated if the employer, in the exercise of reasonable care, should have known of an employee’s reputation for sexual harassment and that it was foreseeable that the employee would engage in sexual harassment of a fellow employee but he was continued in his employment.”
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.