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← 272 Ga. App. 861 - Johnson v. Allen

272 Ga. App. 861 - Johnson v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis

2005

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
3
states following
March 2018
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 226 Ga. App. 459 - Matjoulis v. Integon General Ins. Corp. · Lee v. State Farm Mutual Insurance · Piedmont Hospital, Inc. v. Palladino · 246 Ga. App. 433 - Northside Hospital, Inc. v. Ruotanen · 242 Ga. App. 496 - Johnson v. Rodier

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Under Georgia case law, the concept of invasion of privacy encompasses four loosely related but distinct torts, as follows: (1) intrusion upon the plaintiffs seclusion or solitude, or into his private affairs; (2) public disclosure of embarrassing private facts about the plaintiff; (3) publicity which places the plaintiff in a false light in the public eye; and (4) appropriation for the defendant’s advantage of the plaintiffs name and likeness.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Where an owner or occupier of land, by express or implied invitation, induces or leads others to come upon his premises for any lawful purpose, he is liable in damages to such persons for injuries caused by his failure to exercise ordinary care in keeping the premises and approaches safe.”
    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.