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Douglas v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

578 F.2d 1169 · 1978

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
June 1989
most recently cited

3 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Relies on 68 Ga. App. 269 - Milligan v. Georgia Power Co. · The Boeing Company v. Daniel C. Shipman · Davis v. General Gas Corp. · 106 Ga. App. 859 - Medlin v. Bickford

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

  1. “evidence on which the jury could find that Amoco's gas contributed to the explosion.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.