59 Ga. App. 506 - McLendon v. Floyd’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2018
14 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Rea v. Pittsburg & Connellsville Railroad · Anglin v. City of Columbus · Slaughter v. Atlanta Coca-Cola Bottling Co. · Potter v. Swindle · 19 Ga. App. 15 - Travers v. Macon Railway & Light Co.
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.
“authorized the finding of the jury establishing the liability of the defendant, and the undisputed evidence showed actual damages to the plaintiff resulting from the injuries sustained,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“was grossly inadequate and contrary to law and the evidence, and the refusal to grant the plaintiff a new trial was error.”
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.