Southeastern Stages, Inc. v. Stringer’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2023
15 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 87 Ga. App. 334 - Delta Air Lines Inc. v. Millirons · Savannah, Florida & Western Railway Co. v. Boyle · 77 Ga. App. 73 - Pinnell v. Yellow Cab Company · Yellow Cab Co. v. Carmichael · 28 Ga. App. 173 - Georgia Railway & Power Co. v. Murphy
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen the circumstances are such that a person in the exercise of that degree of diligence known to the law as extraordinary care would see, or should apprehend, that the passenger is in danger of insult or injury; and when the circumstances were such that the employees . . . , in the exercise of the degree of diligence above referred to, should have foreseen that an insult or injury was to be reasonably apprehended, and failed or refused to use the means at hand to protect the passenger therefrom, the [carrier] is liable to the passenger for any damages he sustains as a consequence of such failure or refusal. The general rule would seem to he that whenever a carrier, through its agents or servants, knows or has opportunity to know of a threatened injury, or might have reasonably anticipated the happening of an injury, and fails or neglects to take the proper precautions or to use proper means to prevent or mitigate such injury, the carrier is liable. Knowledge of the passenger’s danger, or of facts and circumstances from which that danger may reasonably be inferred, is necessary to fix the carrier’s liability in this class of cases. The law now seems to be well settled that the carrier is obliged to protect his passenger from violence and insult, from whatever source arising. He is not regarded as an insurer of his passenger’s safety against every possible source of danger; but he is bound to use all such reasonable precautions as human judgment and foresight are capable of”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] common carrier of passengers is not an insurer of the safety of its passengers, but must exercise extraordinary diligence to protect the lives and persons of its passengers. [Cit.] Extraordinary diligence is defined as `that extreme care and caution which very prudent and thoughtful persons exercise under the same or similar circumstances.' [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that extreme care and caution which very prudent and thoughtful persons exercise under the same or similar circumstances.”
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.