77 Ga. App. 62 - Riggs v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 1980 · most notably Bush v. New Jersey & New York Transit Co. (1959), 78 Ga. App. 603 - Christian v. Smith (1949)
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 Southern Railway Co. v. O'Bryan · Western & Atlantic Railroad v. Young · Southern Railway Co. v. Chatman · Crawford v. Southern Railway Co. · 68 Ga. App. 142 - Morrow v. Southeastern Stages Inc.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the charge on that subject was probably harmful to the plaintiff in view of the very small verdict for the plaintiff.”
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.