92 Ga. App. 417 - Corley v. Russell’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 1983
12 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 66 Ga. App. 229 - Cone v. Davis · 4 Ga. App. 680 - Monahan v. National Realty Co. · Mayor of Milledgeville v. Wood · Bullard v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · 34 Ga. App. 163 - Simmons 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One who is himself rightfully using the highway or street has a right to the use thereof, which is superior to that of one who is violating traffic regulations, and, in the absence of knowledge, he is not required to anticipate that some other user will unexpectedly violate the law or rule of the road and create a situation of danger.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Russell v. Corley“Every pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point, other than within a marked crosswalk, or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection, shall yield the right of way to all vehicles upon the roadway.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Russell v. Corley“the child was an infant of tender years, incapable of either violating the ordinance or exercising ordinary care for his own safety.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Russell v. Corley
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.