Baxley v. Williams Construction Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• \[T]he right of a fireman to go upon premises to extinguish a fire is based on the permission of the law and not an invitation of the owner or occupier ...\
• recovery denied notwithstanding the fact that fireman fell into open excavation
• in which this court, in holding that the fireman was not entitled to recover for injuries received when he fell into an excavation while on the premises to fight a fire, noted that “[t]here were no roads, streets, avenues, sidewalks or trails in the vicinity of the alleged excavation.” Id.
• fireman responding to a fire

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

26 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Walters v. Sloan
  California Supreme Court· 1977-11-28· cited 157×
• Crosby v. Savannah Electric & Power Co.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1966-07-14· cited 57×
• London Iron & Metal Co. v. Abney
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-04-22· cited 43×
• Calvert v. Garvey Elevators, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1985-01-26· cited 43×
• Kreiss v. Allatoona Landing, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1963-09-12· cited 37×
• Montega Corp. v. Grooms
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1973-01-05· cited 29×
• Martin v. Gaither
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-12-05· cited 24×
• Nared v. School Dist. of Omaha in Cty. of Douglas
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1974-02-28· cited 24×
• Kahn v. Graper
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1966-11-08· cited 21×
• Braun v. Wright
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1959-10-02· cited 21×
• Phillips v. Hallmark Cards, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1986-12-16· cited 18×
• Champlin v. Walker
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1977-01-19· cited 15×
• Mathis-Akins Concrete Block Co. v. Tucker
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1972-11-14· cited 14×
• Ingram v. Peachtree South, Ltd.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-03-12· cited 13×
• Sanderson Farms, Inc. v. Atkins
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-07-01· cited 12×
• Soto Rivera v. Tropigas de Puerto Rico, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1986-12-04· cited 12×
• Oliver v. City of Atlanta
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1978-10-12· cited 10×
• Wilbanks v. Echols
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-06-25· cited 9×
• George R. Lane & Associates, Inc. v. Thomasson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-11-04· cited 8×
• Abney v. London Iron & Metal Co.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-10-25· cited 8×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Reardon v. Thompson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1889-05-11· cited 83×
• Cook v. Southern Railway Co.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1936-07-10· cited 61×
• McCall v. McCallie
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1933-12-01· cited 54×
• Anderson v. Cinnamon
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1955-09-12· cited 44×
• Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. O'Neal
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1934-12-14· cited 43×
• Anderson v. Cooper
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1958-05-07· cited 35×
• Cooper v. Anderson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1957-12-04· cited 34×
• Todd v. Armour & Co.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1932-01-18· cited 30×
• Mattox v. Atlanta Enterprises, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1955-04-18· cited 24×
• Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Ledbetter
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1933-02-24· cited 24×
• Bridger v. Gresham
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1900-04-06· cited 19×
• Greenfield v. Watson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1936-06-18· cited 19×
• Cobb v. First National Bank
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1938-07-01· cited 17×
• Atlantic Steel Co. v. Cleaton
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1936-01-31· cited 8×
• Georgia Railroad & Banking Co. v. Konkle
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1927-03-05· cited 5×