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297 Ga. App. 765 - Tookes v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis

2009

Citation profile

14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
July 2019
most recently cited

10 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 229 Ga. App. 160 - Desai v. Silver Dollar City, Inc. · 200 Ga. App. 4 - Read v. Benedict · 203 Ga. App. 801 - Viau v. Fred Dean, Inc. · Ragan v. State · 283 Ga. App. 546 - Anderson v. Mergenhagen

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

  1. “resolve disputed facts, reconcile the issues, weigh the evidence, or determine its credibility, as those matters must be submitted to a jury for resolution.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “Whether the tort was sufficiently aggravating to authorize punitive damages is generally a jury question, and a jury may award punitive damages even where the clear and convincing evidence only creates an inference of the defendant [s’] conscious indifference to the consequences of [their] acts. 18”
    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.