84 Ga. App. 376 - Flint Explosive Co. v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2000 · most notably 106 Ga. App. 1 - Holland v. Sanfax Corporation (1962), 143 Ga. App. 142 - Beam v. Omark Industries, Inc. (1977)
4 federal appellate · 25 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. Davis · 79 Ga. App. 302 - Milton Bradley Co. of Ga. v. Cooper · Alabama Great Southern Railroad v. Hall · Western & Atlantic Railroad v. Reed · Blanchard v. Ogletree
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]uch a reckless indifference to consequences known to them would be admissible on the question of malice or wanton misconduct, but it would not be admissible on the question of whether the act itself was negligent, or whether that negligence was the proximate cause of the injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[s]imilar acts or omissions on other and different occasions are not generally admissible to prove like acts or omissions at a different time and place [cits.],”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a greater measure of care is necessary in dealing with explosives than in dealing with products not ordinarily capable of inflicting injury”
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.