216 Ga. App. 607 - Harris v. Tatum’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2016
18 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 Pendley v. Pendley · 186 Ga. App. 27 - National Consultants, Inc. v. Burt · 190 Ga. App. 156 - Whelchel v. Thomas Ford Tractor, Inc. · 110 Ga. App. 477 - Mims v. Boland · 195 Ga. App. 314 - Taylor v. State
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] consent to surgical or medical treatment which discloses in general terms the treatment or course of treatment in connection with which it is given and which is duly evidenced in writing and signed by the patient or other person or persons authorized to consent ... shall be conclusively presumed to be a valid consent in the absence of fraudulent misrepresentations of material facts in obtaining the same.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Any unauthorized and unprivileged contact by a doctor with his patient in examination, treatment or surgery [amounts] to a battery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in the absence of fraudulent misrepresentations of material facts in obtaining the same.”
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.