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← 282 Ga. App. 860 - Collins v. Mitchell

282 Ga. App. 860 - Collins v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis

2006

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
March 2015
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Forsyth County v. Martin · 227 Ga. App. 356 - Carlock v. Kmart Corp. · 196 Ga. App. 495 - Cann v. Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority · 242 Ga. App. 102 - Barone v. Law · 275 Ga. App. 452 - Swanson v. Hall

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

  1. “We will not overturn a trial court’s decision to give a particular jury charge if there was any evidence presented at trial to support giving the charge. In determining whether some evidence exists to support an instruction, an appellate court is not authorized either to weigh existing evidence or to judge witness credibility as these matters are within the province of the jury.”
    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.