262 Ga. App. 538 - Osowski v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2023
19 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 201 Ga. App. 405 - Stelts v. Epperson · 179 Ga. App. 861 - Community Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Foster Developers, Inc. · 246 Ga. App. 458 - Wade v. American National Insurance · 208 Ga. App. 248 - McGinty v. GOLDENS'FOUNDRY & MACHINE COMPANY · 255 Ga. App. 380 - Piney Grove Baptist Church v. Goss
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one who undertakes to do an act or perform a service for another has the duty to exercise care, and is liable for injury resulting from his failure to do so, even though his undertaking is purely voluntary or even though it was completely gratuitous, and he was not under any obligation to do such act or perform such service, or there was no consideration for the promise or undertaking sufficient to support an action ex contractu based thereon. 5”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In a typical dog bite case, regardless of whether the cause of action is based on the premises liability statute (OCGA § 51-3-1) or the dangerous animal liability statute (OCGA § 51-2-7), a plaintiff must produce evidence of the vicious propensity of the dog in order to show that the owner of the premises had superior knowledge of the danger. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“as to whether [the homeowner] explicitly or implicitly agreed to undertake ensuring that the dogs would not pose a risk of harm to Osowski.”
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.