287 Ga. App. 304 - Brady v. ELEVATOR SPECIALISTS, INC.’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Kumho Tire Company, Ltd., et al. v. Patrick Carmichael, Etc., et al. · General Electric Co. v. Joiner · 232 Ga. App. 680 - Supchak v. Pruitt · Latson v. Boaz
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.
“[A] building owner [ ] owes a duty of extraordinary diligence to elevator passengers and cannot delegate this duty to an independent contractor engaged to repair the elevator. . . . Neither building owners nor elevator maintenance providers, however, are insurers of elevator passengers’ safety . . . [and pjroof of the occurrence of a fall, even an elevator-related one, does not establish liability The true ground of liability is a defendant’s superior knowledge of the defective condition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not show that the inspections or maintenance actually performed were negligent or that [the Medical Center] knew or [was] put on notice during these procedures that elevator [three] was defective. Thus, there is no basis for a jury to find that [the Medical Center] knew, or had reason to know, that elevator [three] was defective or presented a danger to passengers on”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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