81 Ga. App. 365 - McCarthy v. Hiers’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
4 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 2011
4 district · 13 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 65 Ga. App. 334 - McCrory Stores Corporation v. Ahern · Fulton Ice & Coal Co. v. Pece · Babcock Bros. Lumber Co. v. Johnson · Cuthbert v. Schofield · 65 Ga. App. 285 - Williamson v. Kidd
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the owner or occupier of premises is without actual knowledge of the existence of a defect, and there is nothing in the appearance or character of the premises or some instrumentality on the premises which would indicate the possible or probable existence of any defects, there is no reason to think an inspection necessary, and ordinary diligence would not require an inspection of the premises or an instrumentality upon the premises before permitting an invitee to make use of the same. (Citing cases.) ” 3”
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.