Arnold v. Walton’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably 131 Ga. App. 461 - Sims v. American Casualty Co. (1974), Miree v. United States (1978)
14 federal appellate · 35 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 66 Ga. App. 431 - Hodges v. Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corp. · Tounsel v. State Highway Department · Great American Indemnity Co. v. Tickers · 66 Ga. App. 826 - Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad · Wolff v. Southern Railway Co.
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There is nothing in this provision conferring any benefits upon the public; and, we think, there is nothing in this provision which estops the insurance company, as against the plaintiff in this litigation, from raising the question of the immunity of the county to suit.”
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.