201 Ga. App. 41 - Lepard v. Robb’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2018
2 federal appellate · 11 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 Eiberger v. West · 188 Ga. App. 14 - Kurtz v. Williams · 163 Ga. App. 354 - Monahan v. Sims · 192 Ga. App. 811 - Williams v. Cook · 195 Ga. App. 407 - Kenney v. Gilmore
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The doctrine of respondeat superior does not apply in slander cases, and a corporation is not liable for the slanderous utterances of an agent acting within the scope of his employment, unless it affirmatively appears that the agent was expressly directed or authorized to slander the plaintiff.”
2 later decisions 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.