197 Ga. App. 466 - Brown v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Sierra Club v. Department of Transportation of the State (2009), Fought & Co. v. Steel Engineering & Erection, Inc. (1998)
25 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 82 Ga. App. 321 - Atlanta Journal Co. v. Doyal · 126 Ga. App. 522 - Buffalo Cab Co. v. Williams · Grant v. Hart · Tift v. Towns · 169 Ga. App. 219 - Dimambro Northend Associates v. Williams
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was based solely upon [the] contention that [the defendant's] liability insurer had `arbitrarily and capriciously refused to make a good faith effort to settle [plaintiff's] claim and made unreasonably low offers of settlement. . . in an attempt to force [plaintiff] to settle his claim for less than the true value thereof. . . .'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The expenses of litigation generally shall not be allowed as a part of the damages; but where the plaintiff has specially pleaded and has made prayer therefor and where the defendant has acted in bad faith, has been stubbornly litigious, or has caused the plaintiff unnecessary trouble and expense, the jury may allow them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a bona fide controversy [did] exist as to whether the collision was caused by the negligence of appellant or the negligence of appellee or the negligence of both.”
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.