Hicks v. Heard’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 106 Ga. App. 1 - Holland v. Sanfax Corporation · 107 Ga. App. 178 - McCarty v. National Life & Accident Insurance · Allen Kane's Major Dodge, Inc. v. Barnes · 1 Ga. App. 714 - Georgia Railway & Electric Co. v. Harris · 156 Ga. App. 794 - International Business MacHines, Inc. v. Bozardt
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a servant causes an injury to another, the test to determine if the master is liable is whether or not the servant was at the time of the injury acting within the scope of his employment and on the business of the master.”
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.