Bright v. Nimmo’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently November 2012 · most notably Hayes v. Continental Insurance (1994), Falline v. GNLV CORP. (1991)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 33 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 131 Ga. App. 461 - Sims v. American Casualty Co. · Murphy v. Ara Services, Inc. · Samuel v. Baitcher · 165 Ga. App. 888 - Cox v. Brazo · Brazo v. Cox
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he rights and the remedies granted to an employee by this chapter shall exclude all other rights and remedies of such employee... at common law or otherwise, on account of such injury, loss of service, or death....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e are faced not with an alleged intentional physical injury by the employer but with an alleged intentional financial injury. The defendants argue that OCGA § 34-9-221(e) provides the exclusive remedy available to plaintiff. That subsection ... deals solely with income benefits (as opposed to benefits for medical, surgical, hospital, etc., care).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“OCGA § 34-9-11... has been interpreted consistently to mean that, `where the workers' compensation law is applicable, it provides the employee's exclusive remedy against his employer.' Freeman v. Ryder Truck Lines, Inc., 244 Ga. 80, 82 ( 259 SE2d 36 ) (1979) (citing cases). Conversely, although `the remedy provided by this statute is exclusive within the field of its operation... it does not exclude redress in cases to which it is not applicable.' Covington v. Berkeley Granite Corp., 182 Ga. 235, 237 ( 184 SE 871 ) (1935). In Covington , the court went on `to say, the right”
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.