Kaplan v. Sanders’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2013
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 Southern Railway Co. v. O'Bryan · Mauldin v. Sheffer · Southern Railway Co. v. Davis · Standard Oil Co. v. Mount Bethel United Methodist Church · 115 Ga. App. 127 - E. & M. Construction Co., Inc. v. Bob
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[t]o authorize the imposition of punitive or exemplary damages there must be evidence of wilful misconduct, malice, fraud, wantonness, or oppression, or that entire want of care which would raise the presumption of a conscious indifference to consequences.” [Cits.] [Kaplan v. Sanders, 237 Ga. 132, 134 ( 227 SE2d 38 ) (1976).]”
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.