Goss v. Total Chipping, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• trial court did not abuse its discretion in excluding during liability phase of trial potentially prejudicial evidence that Total Chipping’s trucks were poorly maintained and unsafe and the owner had instructed them to drive the trucks despite light and brake problems
• “to justify a charge on any given subject . . . [i]t is sufficient if some evidence exists from which the jury may engage in a legitimate reasoning process to reach an inference on that point”
• “a trial court’s ruling right for any reason will be affirmed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Webster v. Boyett
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-02· cited 40×
• Kothari v. Patel
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-06-17· cited 24×
• Willett v. Russell M. Stookey, P.C.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-06-21· cited 24×
• Jones v. Cartee
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-07-16· cited 17×
• MCI Communications Services, Inc. v. CMES, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2012-06-18· cited 15×
• Royal v. Ferrellgas, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-03-12· cited 14×
• Gist v. DeKALB TIRE CO., INC.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-10-15· cited 11×
• Phyfer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-01-29· cited 11×
• Orkin Exterminating Co., Inc. v. Carder
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-11-22· cited 10×
• Rozier v. Berto
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-02-03· cited 10×
• Boyett v. Webster
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-05-22· cited 9×
• Elliott v. McDaniel
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-05-30· cited 8×
• Keith v. Alexander Underwriters General Agency, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-06-16· cited 8×
• First Bancorp Mortgage Corp. v. Giddens
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-10-03· cited 7×
• Dawson v. Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-07-16· cited 5×
• American Southern Insurance Group, Inc. v. Goldstein
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-03-26· cited 5×
• Axom v. Wendy's International, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-05-28· cited 4×
• Shasta Beverages, Inc. v. Tetley USA, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-03-02· cited 3×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wright v. Dilbeck
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1970-07-02· cited 65×
• Orkin Exterminating Co. v. McIntosh
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-11-30· cited 53×
• Gunthorpe v. Daniels
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-05-08· cited 44×
• City of Monroe v. Jordan
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-09-27· cited 23×
• E. H. Siler Realty & Business Broker, Inc. v. Sanderlin
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-06-16· cited 16×
• Boatner v. Kandul
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-09-08· cited 15×
• Carrandi v. Sanders
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-09-27· cited 13×
• Seaboard Coastline Railroad v. Delahunt
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-06-23· cited 11×
• Dimarco's, Inc. v. Neidlinger
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-02-25· cited 10×
• Hanie v. Barnett
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-04-18· cited 10×
• Beringause v. Fogleman Truck Lines, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-06-29· cited 9×
• Browning v. Paccar, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-08-23· cited 9×
• Kane v. Cohen
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-03-19· cited 8×
• Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Butts
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-01-04· cited 7×
• Massie v. Ross
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-09-29· cited 6×
• Bowling v. Gober
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-10-29· cited 4×