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← 203 Ga. App. 431 - Weir v. McGill

203 Ga. App. 431 - Weir v. McGill’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
April 2009
most recently cited

2 district · 6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 160 Ga. App. 591 - Lively v. Garnick · 130 Ga. App. 407 - Lincoln Land Co. v. Palfery · 157 Ga. App. 666 - Premium Distributing Co. v. National Distributing Co. · 182 Ga. App. 379 - Smith v. Hawks · 140 Ga. App. 37 - Lamas v. Baldwin

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A corporate officer who takes part in the commission of a tort by a corporation is personally liable therefore, but an officer of a corporation who takes no part in the commission of a tort committed by the corporation is not personally liable unless he specifically directed the particular act to be done or participated or cooperated therein (or if he disregarded the corporate form so as to authorize piercing of the corporate veil).”
    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.