88 Ga. App. 191 - Mason v. Crowe’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 1988
11 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 33 Ga. App. 411 - Scearce v. Mayor of Gainesyille · City of Brunswick v. Glogauer · 86 Ga. App. 832 - City of East Point v. Mason · 46 Ga. App. 254 - Ellis v. Southern Grocery Stores Inc. · Byne v. Mayor of Americus
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A municipal corporation is bound to exercise ordinary care in maintaining its sidewalks and streets in a reasonably safe condition for ordinary modes of travel both by day and by night, and the failure to exercise such care, coupled with knowledge by the defendant of a defect or hazardous condition, will give a cause of action for an injury resulting from such defect. Coker v. City of Rome, 53 Ga. App. 533 ( 186 S. E. 585 ); Belcher v. City of Atlanta, 71 Ga. App. 595, 597 ( 31 S. E. 2d 612 ). Even a minor defect causing an injury is sufficient to authorize a submission to a jury of the question of whether or not a defendant municipality was negligent in permitting it to remain. Coker v. City of Rome, supra, at p. 354 . The petition as amended alleges actual knowledge of the condition on the part of the municipality, and negligence on its part in permitting the defect or hazardous condition to remain after such knowledge, and injury to the plaintiff resulting from the hazardous condition. As against a general demurrer those allegations were sufficient. See City of Brunswick v. Glogauer, 158 Ga. 792 (1), 801-812 ( 124 S. E. 787 ); City of Thomasville v. Campbell, 38 Ga. App. 249 ( 143 S. E. 922 ); City of Rome v. Hanson, 57 Ga. App. 222 ( 194 S. E. 887 ).”
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.