220 Ga. App. 91 - Wright v. Ashe’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably 226 Ga. App. 800 - Crisp County School System v. Brown (1997), 222 Ga. App. 831 - Perkins v. Morgan County School District (1996)
42 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 196 Ga. App. 95 - Joyce v. Van Arsdale · 211 Ga. App. 534 - Wallace v. Boys Club of Albany, Georgia, Inc. · 160 Ga. App. 116 - North v. Toco Hills, Inc. · 211 Ga. App. 502 - Guthrie v. Irons · 177 Ga. App. 783 - Wanless v. Winner's Corp.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n regard to proximate cause, the question is not whether the defendants' conduct caused the injury, but whether the causal connection between the defendants' conduct and the injury resulting therefrom is too remote to be the basis of a recovery.... Generally, an intervening criminal act of a third party, without which the injury would not have occurred, will also be treated as the proximate cause of the injury thus breaking the causal connection between the defendants' negligence and the injury unless the criminal act was a reasonably foreseeable consequence of the defendants' conduct.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“In the instant case, in viewing the facts in the light most favorable to the [Perkins], even if the [appellees] were negligent in their supervision and monitoring of [Denise Perkins], such conduct on the part of the [appellees] did nothing more than give rise to the occasion which made [her] injuries possible. Other unforeseeable circumstances, including the intervening criminal act of [Swain], preponderated in causing the injury to [Denise]. Thus, it appears that the defendants' conduct was, at best, a remote cause of the injuries sustained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Generally, the determination of whether an action is discretionary or ministerial depends on the character of the specific actions complained of, not the general nature of the job, and is to be made on a case-by-case basis. [Cit.]”
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.