211 Ga. App. 502 - Guthrie v. Irons’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Gilbert v. Richardson (1994), 216 Ga. App. 293 - Coffee County School District v. Snipes (1995)
25 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 Hennessy v. Webb · Martin v. Georgia Department of Public Safety · Logue v. Wright · Nelson v. Spalding County · 196 Ga. App. 95 - Joyce v. Van Arsdale
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“protects individual public agents from personal liability for discretionary actions taken within the scope of their official authority, and done without wilfulness, malice or corruption.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“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“`one that is simple, absolute, and definite, arising under conditions admitted or proved to exist, and requiring merely the execution of a specific duty....' [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.