237 Ga. App. 841 - Fowler v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Federal Insurance v. National Distributing Co. · Gasway v. Atlanta & West Point Railroad · 188 Ga. App. 716 - McGivern v. First Capital Income Properties, Ltd. · 186 Ga. App. 371 - Roberts v. Cotton States Mutual Insurance · 234 Ga. App. 131 - Rapps v. Cooke
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Georgia, employers or principals may be vicariously liable for punitive damages arising from the acts or omissions of their employees or agents if such tortious conduct is committed in the course of the employer’s or principal’s business, within the scope of the servant’s or agent’s employment, and is sufficient to authorize a recovery of punitive damages under OCGA § 51-12-5.1.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“be given the benefit of all reasonable doubt and all favorable inferences that may be drawn from the evidence. [Cit.]”
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.