229 Ga. App. 441 - Carter v. Spells’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2014
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 Lau's Corp., Inc. v. Haskins · Moore v. Thompson · 222 Ga. App. 736 - Gentile v. Bower · 203 Ga. App. 801 - Viau v. Fred Dean, Inc. · 207 Ga. App. 250 - J. B. Hunt Transport, Inc. v. Bentley
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“from a pattern or policy of dangerous driving, such as driving while intoxicated or speeding excessively.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Punitive damages may be awarded only in such tort actions in which it is proven by clear and convincing evidence that the defendant’s actions showed willful misconduct, malice, fraud, wantonness, oppression, or that entire want of care which would raise the presumption of conscious indifference to consequences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“punitive damages are not recoverable where the driver at fault simply violated a rule of the road.”
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.