262 Ga. App. 232 - Brooks v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 226 Ga. App. 459 - Matjoulis v. Integon General Ins. Corp. · Moore v. Thompson · Saucedo Ex Rel. Sinaloa v. Salvation Army · 204 Ga. App. 910 - Tower Financial Services, Inc. v. Smith · 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p lunitive 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.”
2 later decisions 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.