201 Ga. App. 405 - Stelts v. Epperson’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently January 2019
14 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 Huggins v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Company · 170 Ga. App. 509 - Housing Authority of Atlanta v. Famble · 174 Ga. App. 832 - Cunningham v. National Service Industries, Inc. · 149 Ga. App. 478 - Simmerson v. Blanks · 187 Ga. App. 754 - Hill v. Century 21 Max Stancil Realty, 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one who undertakes to do an act or perform a service for another has the duty to exercise care, and is liable for injury resulting from his failure to do so, even though his undertaking is purely voluntary or even though it was completely gratuitous, and he was not under any obligation to do such act or perform such service, or there was no consideration for the promise or undertaking sufficient to support an action ex contractu based thereon.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where one undertakes an act which he has no duty to perform and another reasonably relies upon that undertaking, the act must generally be performed with ordinary or reasonable care.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Equifax, Inc.
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.