62 Ga. App. 880 - Tarrant v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 1985
6 federal appellate · 4 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 61 Ga. App. 223 - Roadway Express Inc. v. McBroom · Great American Indemnity Co. v. Tickers · Southern Railway Co. v. Harbin · 4 Ga. App. 207 - Roberts v. State · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Postal Telegraph-Cable 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The present action was for alleged negligence of the driver of the motor vehicle. Plaintiff could have sued the driver alone, or the motor carrier alone, or she could have sued them jointly. She could have sued the insurance carrier alone or as authorized by the act she could have joined the motor carrier and the insurance carrier in the same action, irrespectively whether it sounded in tort or in contract. The negligence relied on in each of the actions would have been the negligence of the driver of the motor vehicle. The driver himself was liable because of his own negligence. The motor carrier was liable because of the doctrine of respondeat superior. The insurance carrier was liable because it assumed by contract a liability for the negligence either of the motor carrier or of the agent or driver. Unless a cause of action is made out against the driver under the allegations as here made, there can be no recovery against any one. As stated above, the motor carrier is liable under the doctrine of respondeat superior. See Southern Railway Co. v. Harbin, 135 Ga. 122 , 68 S.E. 1103 , 30 L.R.A.,N.S., 404, 21 Ann.Cas. 1011; Davenport v. Waters, 40 Ga.App. 99 , 148 S.E. 772 . The bond or policy required protects the public against the negligence of such driver. The negligence of the motor carrier is derivative from the negligence of the driver or agent. A judgment in favor of the driver, in the event he were sued alone, may be pleaded in bar to any subsequent action brought aga”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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