Myers v. Lashley’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Evers v. FSF Overlake Associates (2003), Rite Aid Corp. v. Hagley (2003)
26 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 Salve Regina College v. Russell · Ultramares Corp. v. Touche · Althaus Ex Rel. Althaus v. Cohen · Kluver v. Weatherford Hospital Authority · Zamstein v. Marvasti
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a legally correct nisi prius judgment must be affirmed although it was anchored to a theory different from that on which it comes to be tested on appellate review”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Title 10A O.S.2011 1 — 2—104(B) provides that “the good faith of any person in making a report ,,. shall be presumed.” In Myers, a case that was also decided at the summary judgment stage, the Court stated that once the statutory privilege at issue has been invoked, “the onus shift[s]” to the plaintiff “to overcome its effect” by “tendering' acceptable evidentiary materials which would show the [reporter’s] conduct in contest was outside the range of her statutory protection...“[Probative materials” showing some “intentional wrongdoing” must be present in the record to overcome the statutory immunity. The Myers Court explained that evidence even of gross negligence, characterized as reckless indifference to the consequences, “falls short of an intentional wrong’s equivalent.” The [Myers] Court stated: While gross negligence may support a punitive damages assessment, it is insufficient ... to provide a predicate for an inference of bad faith. Even if [plaintiffs] were' relying on gross negligence ... [on the part of the reporter of the child abuse] ... they could not escalate their claim against her to a willful tort from which bad faith could be inferred. Rather, the Myers Court stated that “[t]he element of scienter — that of guilty knowledge — is an indispensable ingredient in the pattern of proof required to show lack of good faith.” The Court noted that bad faith, “or mala fides ... consists in guilty knowledge, or willful ignorance, showing a vicious or evil mind[.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Oklahoma's child abuse reporting laws express the State's strong public interest in protecting children from abuse by the policy of mandatory reporting of actual and suspected child abuse or neglect to appropriate authorities and agencies. The statutory scheme imposes upon all health care professionals (teachers as well as all other persons) an obligation to report in good faith all suspected instances of child abuse to [DHS]. No privilege or contract will relieve any person from the legally mandated reporting requirement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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