68 Ga. App. 637 - Callaway v. Pickard’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently December 1996 · most notably Barbara R. Gross v. Southern Railway Company, Nancy Ruth Canipelli v. Southern Railway Company (1969), Atlanta Obstetrics & Gynecology Group, P. A. v. Coleman (1990)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 33 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 Pokora v. Wabash Railway Co. · Southern Railway Co. v. Slaton · O'Neill Manufacturing Co. v. Pruitt · Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Leonard · 65 Ga. App. 453 - Powell v. Jarrell
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hat amounts to negligence, contributory or comparative negligence, proximate cause, etc., are ordinarily questions for the jury under appropriate instructions, and such questions will not be determined by the court as a matter of law except in plain and undisputed cases. [Id. at 641.]”
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.