Vaughn v. Pleasent’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably 229 Ga. App. 160 - Desai v. Silver Dollar City, Inc. (1997), Muldovan v. McEachern (1999)
4 federal appellate · 68 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 200 Ga. App. 822 - Beringause v. Fogleman Truck Lines, Inc. · 120 Ga. App. 25 - Whitehead v. Seymour · Turner v. Sumter Self Storage Co. · 151 Ga. App. 506 - Myers v. Boleman · 171 Ga. App. 561 - McCrimmons v. Cornell-Young Co.
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The knowledge that a plaintiff who assumes a risk must subjectively possess is that of the specific, particular risk of harm associated with the activity or condition that proximately causes the injury. The knowledge requirement does not refer to a plaintiffs comprehension of general, nonspecific risks that might be associated with such conditions or activities.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“In Georgia, The affirmative defense of assumption of the risk bars a plaintiff from recovering on a negligence claim if it is established that he without coercion of circumstances, chooses a course of action with full knowledge of its danger and while exercising a free choice as to whether to engage in the act or not.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n its simplest and primary sense, assumption of the risk means that the plaintiff, in advance, has given his consent to relieve the defendant of an obligation of conduct toward him, and to take his chances of injury from a known risk arising from what the defendant is to do or leave undone.”
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.