200 Ga. App. 4 - Read v. Benedict’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably 204 Ga. App. 910 - Tower Financial Services, Inc. v. Smith (1992), 229 Ga. App. 220 - Home Insurance v. Wynn (1997)
28 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 178 Ga. App. 742 - Whisnant v. State · 196 Ga. App. 825 - West v. Nodvin · TelecomUsa, Inc. v. Collins · 185 Ga. App. 798 - Associated Health Systems, Inc. v. Jones · 131 Ga. App. 840 - Crankshaw v. Stanley Homes, Inc.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well established that that language means such damages cannot be imposed in any case unless there is willful misconduct, malice, fraud, wantonness, oppression, or that entire want of care which would raise the presumption of a conscious indifference to consequences. The latter expression (conscious indifference to consequences) relates to an intentional disregard of the rights of another, knowingly or willfully disregarding such rights.”
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.