70 Ga. App. 563 - Stenger v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably Allen Kane's Major Dodge, Inc. v. Barnes (1979), Hinson v. United States (1958)
8 federal appellate · 30 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 American Mutual Liability Insurance v. Curry · Gray v. McNeal · 63 Ga. App. 367 - Hawkins v. National Surety Corp. · Elrod v. Anchor Duck Mills · 61 Ga. App. 635 - Welsh v. Ætna Casualty & Surety 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, a servant in going to and from his work in an automobile acts only for his own purposes and not for those of his employer, and consequently the employer is not to be held liable for an injury occasioned while the servant is en route to or from his work.”
3 later decisions 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.