84 Ga. App. 421 - Bowman v. Fuller’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2007
17 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
Applies 49 U.S.C. § 306
Relies on Orkin Ex. Co. Inc., So. Georgia v. Dewberry · Commercial Lumber Co. v. Nelson · Robinson v. Reynolds · Bugg v. Towner · Soulek v. City of Omaha
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether or not [Pinkerton] ever assumed any control or supervision of [Fischer, it] acquired the right to do so and accepted the status of an employer. Because of this, any negligence of [Fischer]... would not change the situation, as such negligence under the circumstances would be chargeable to [Pinkerton] rather than to [Tim’s Crane].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`Broadly, there is a joint enterprise or adventure when two or more combine their property or labor, or both, in a joint undertaking for profit, with rights of mutual control, provided the arrangement does not establish a partnership.' [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The question of whether or not the facts proved show a joint adventure between the parties as well as whether or not the act done is within the scope of the enterprise so as to bind the other party thereto is generally a jury question.”
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.