211 Ga. App. 156 - Schmidt v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2014
18 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on West v. Atkins · Hennessy v. Webb · Logue v. Wright · 196 Ga. App. 95 - Joyce v. Van Arsdale · 117 Ga. App. 1 - Irwin v. Arrendale
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A ministerial act is commonly one that is simple, absolute, and definite, arising under conditions admitted or proved to exist, and requiring merely the execution of a specific duty. A discretionary act, however, calls for the exercise of personal deliberation and judgment, which in turn entails examining the facts, reaching reasoned conclusions, and acting on them in a way not specifically directed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“within the scope of a traditional doctor-patient relationship which incidentally arises at a publicly owned or funded hospital,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Ross v. Schackel“his primary concern and duty is the governmental function of caring for persons confined in the jail.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Ross v. Schackel
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.