76 Ga. App. 857 - Whitfield v. Wheeler’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 1983
12 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 66 Ga. App. 229 - Cone v. Davis · Epps v. Parrish · 30 Ga. App. 187 - Harris v. Reid · 69 Ga. App. 584 - Higgins v. Otis Elevator Co. · Tucker v. Andrews
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the driver of an automobile is confronted, with a sudden emergency, if he finds he is so confronted, is not liable because he might not exercise good judgment under the circumstances, but is held liable in such emergency for the exercise of ordinary care and diligence under the circumstances.”
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.