205 Ga. App. 568 - Samuelson v. Lord, Aeck & Sergeant, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2011
15 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 Bradley Center, Inc. v. Wessner · Robert & Company Associates v. Rhodes-Haverty Partnership · 131 Ga. App. 461 - Sims v. American Casualty Co. · Providence Washington Insurance v. Sims · Cheeley v. Henderson
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.
“no privity is necessary to support a tort action; but, if the tort results from the violation of a duty which is itself the consequence of a contract, the right of action is confined to the parties and those in privity to that contract, except in cases where the party would have a right of action for the injury done independently of the contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Independently of the contract to design a building or premises, an architect or engineer owes a general duty to use reasonable care not to harm third persons who, it is reasonably foreseeable, might be harmed by a negligent architectural design.”
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.