242 Ga. App. 795 - Whelan v. Moone’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 222 Ga. App. 161 - Southeastern Security Insurance v. Hotle · Gainesville Radiology Group v. Hummel · 235 Ga. App. 419 - Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority v. Green International, Inc. · 171 Ga. App. 744 - U-Haul of Western Ga. v. Ford · 223 Ga. App. 52 - Smith v. Crump
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.
“If the plaintiff by ordinary care could have avoided the consequences to himself caused by the defendant's negligence, he is not entitled to recover. In other cases the defendant is not relieved, although the plaintiff may in some way have contributed to the injury sustained.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“judicially engrafted component of the comparative negligence rule,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Connell v. Riggins
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.