211 Ga. App. 578 - Dowling v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lau's Corp., Inc. v. Haskins · 145 Ga. App. 113 - Parrott v. Chatham County Hospital Authority · 166 Ga. App. 574 - Hawkins v. Greenberg · Miles v. Ashland Chemical Co. · 209 Ga. App. 251 - Goggin v. Goldman
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Georgia's wrongful death statutes give a right of action not available at common law and must be limited strictly to the meaning of the language employed and not extended beyond plain and explicit terms. Miles v. Ashland Chem. Co., 261 Ga. 726, 728 ( 410 SE2d 290 ) [(1991)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there is no evidence that defendant's [discontinuation of medical treatment] was the proximate cause of the decedent's death so as to authorize damages for the full value of the decedent's life pursuant to OCGA § 51-4-2(a).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Neither [the wrongful death statute], nor any other provision in Georgia's wrongful death statutes provides for recovery where a defendant's wrongful act or negligence did not result in death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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