68 Ga. App. 316 - McVeigh v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 1984
9 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 Seaboard Air-Line Railway Co. v. Fountain · 60 Ga. App. 105 - Collier v. Pollard · 45 Ga. App. 806 - Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Cooper · Roberts v. Baker · Parrish v. Southwestern Railroad
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The purpose of the statute was to create an inference and cast upon the defendant carrier the duty of producing some evidence to the contrary, and as we have seen when that is done the inference is at an end and the question of negligence becomes one for the jury upon all the evidence.””
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.