216 Ga. App. 565 - Watts v. Jaffs’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2019
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 Thompson v. Crownover · Huckabee v. Grace · 142 Ga. App. 269 - Hull v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance · 132 Ga. App. 297 - Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance v. McGivern · 176 Ga. App. 158 - Grier v. JEFFCO MANAGEMENT COMPANY
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“our courts have come to recognize a state policy of prevention of unsafe residential housing, holding landlords liable in tort for failure to correct conditions that exist in violation of the duties created by the housing codes and other legislation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that is not necessarily a bar to recovery when the defect is in violation of a duty created by applicable statute or administrative regulation.”
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.