197 Ga. App. 420 - Doggett v. Patrick’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 144 Ga. App. 745 - Vaughn v. Jernigan · 145 Ga. App. 27 - Chambers v. Gibson · 194 Ga. App. 591 - Porter v. Beloit Corp. · 161 Ga. App. 110 - Stoker v. Wood · 172 Mich. App. 752 - Miller v. Massullo
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Pursuant to that doctrine, " '(a)n employer may become a third person, vulnerable to tort suit by an employee, if — and only if — he possesses a second persona so completely independent from and unrelated to his status as employer that by established standards the law recognizes it as a separate legal person.’ Larson’s Workmen’s Compensation Law, § 72.81, Vol. 2A.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Evidence in the record creates at least an issue of fact to be determined by a jury regarding whether defendant’s knowledge, if any, of the allegedly defective condition came to him through his ownership of the premises as opposed to his status as president of the company which leased the premises from him.”
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.