Johnson v. Ellis

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming defendant driver’s grant of motion for directed verdict in pedestrian’s negligence suit when there was no evidence that the driver could have or should have seen the pedestrian walking into a collision path with the driver’s car
• affirming defendant driver’s grant of motion for directed verdict in pedestrian’s negligence suit when there was no evidence that the driver could have or should have seen the pedestrian walking into a collision path with the driver’s car
• affirming directed verdict to driver where evidence showed that inebriated pedestrian was walking to the side of, not in front of, driver's moving vehicle and there was no evidence that pedestrian \was actually on the roadway prior to his moving into the collision\
• affirming directed verdict to driver where evidence showed that inebriated pedestrian was walking to the side of, not in front of, driver’s moving vehicle and there was no evidence that pedestrian “was actually on the roadway prior to his moving into the collision”
• directed verdict in driver’s favor affirmed where there was no evidence that the driver could have or should have seen the plaintiff before he walked into the driver’s car
• plaintiff pedestrian failed to show prima facie case of negligence required to survive motion for directed verdict when evidence showed that pedestrian was “walking and thus in a state of action to the side of, and not in front of, the moving automobile”

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Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Tucker v. Love
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-07-11· cited 16×
• Robertson v. Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-05-09· cited 13×
• McKissick v. Giroux
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-03-25· cited 13×
• Cromer v. Hodges
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-03-08· cited 11×
• Neal v. Miller
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-01-16· cited 11×
• Young v. Kitchens
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-10-21· cited 11×
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  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-06-02· cited 7×
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  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-06-27· cited 7×
• Mayo v. OLD DOMINION FREIGHT LINE, INC.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-12-04· cited 6×
• Kelly v. Fann
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-10-24· cited 5×
• Carter v. Ensley
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-07-09· cited 4×
• Eatmon v. Weeks
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-07-16· cited 3×
• Trujillo ex rel. Osofsky v. Galio
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1987-10-06· cited 1×
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  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2022-04-11
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Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Southland Butane Gas Co. v. Blackwell
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1955-05-10· cited 111×
• Orkin Exterminating Co. v. Stevens
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1973-11-07· cited 107×
• Pendley v. Pendley
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-05-12· cited 89×
• Fountain v. Thompson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-03-01· cited 28×
• Brown v. Kirkland
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1963-11-14· cited 17×
• Wallace v. Yarbrough
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1980-07-07· cited 14×
• Smith v. Morico
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-05-25· cited 9×
• Dowling v. Tracy
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1967-06-20· cited 3×