79 Ga. App. 639 - Mathis v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably Merrow v. Hawkins (1996), Nelson v. Spalding County (1982)
24 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 City Council of Augusta v. Owens · Bach v. Bragg Bros. & Blackwell Inc. · 67 Ga. App. 58 - Price v. Owen · Stevens v. North States Motor, Inc. · 71 Ga. App. 888 - Harden v. State
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 actual progress of such work by a local government is of a ministerial character, and . . . the duties of a road supervisor in carrying out the physical details of the work are likewise ministerial in nature. Likewise, the supervision and control by the road supervisor of a subordinate who is actually running the road machine are of the same character.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A motorist upon the public highways of this state has a right to assume that the road ahead of him is clear and it may be generally stated that any person responsible for the obstruction of a highway is under the duty to exercise proper care that approaching motorists are warned of such obstruction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dewey v. Keller
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.