202 Ga. App. 475 - Fields v. Kroger Company’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2016
8 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 110 Ga. App. 592 - Abner v. WT Grant Company · 177 Ga. App. 651 - Lord v. K-Mart Corp. · 116 Ga. App. 539 - Seligman & Latz of Atlanta, Inc. v. Grant
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A detention need not consist of physical restraint, but may arise out of " ' "words, acts, gestures, or the like, which induce a reasonable apprehension that force will be used if plaintiff does not submit; and it is sufficient if they operate upon the will of the person threatened, and result in a reasonable fear of personal difficulty or personal injuries.” ’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]here is no issue for the jury where there is po detention.”
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.