90 Ga. App. 418 - Archer v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2003
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 Boyd 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The right to use the public thoroughfares with reasonable safety is an important liberty to be enjoyed by the citizen. The protection of his person and automobile while exercising this privilege against anyone, even an officer of the law who fails to use reasonable care[,] is guaranteed to him by [Art. I, Sec. I, Par. II of the Georgia Constitution of 1983]. Archer v. Johnson, 90 Ga. App. 418, 422 ( 83 SE2d 314 ) (1954).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is desirable that the ambulance reach the stricken patient, that the fire engine proceed to and quench the fire, that the officer overtake and apprehend the criminal, but it is equally as important that innocent persons, whether or not connected with the emergency to be met, not be maimed or killed in the operation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“duty to drive with due regard for the safety of all persons,”
2 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.