Logue v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Gilbert v. Richardson (1994), Cameron v. Lang (2001)
4 federal appellate · 53 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 · Toombs County v. O'NEAL · Nelson v. Spalding County · Price v. Department of Transportation
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here[, as here,] there is no self-insurance fund [covering official acts of a public official], the distinction between ministerial and discretionary acts is still viable in ruling on immunity for public officials for liability for their negligent acts. It is important to keep in mind that the immunity is for [a] negligent [discretionary] [act,] not for malicious acts, acts of corruption, wilful acts, or acts involving reckless disregard for the safety of others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“under the statutes dealing with liability insurance for government employees and officials [OCGA § 45-9-1 et seq.], only state self-insurance plans will waive sovereign immunity. There is no provision for a county to set up a self-insurance plan.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he decision to rush to the scene of the disorder lay within [the officer's] discretion.... The fact that he did so negligently does not place him outside the rule. To say that it did would render the rule meaningless.”
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.