Gilbert v. Richardson’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 243 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 359 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Cameron v. Lang (2001), Mann v. Taser International, Inc. (2009)
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 243 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 Norton v. Shelby Co State of Tennessee · James v. Prince George's County · Hennessy v. Webb · Houston v. Lowes of Savannah, Inc. · Donaldson 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 359 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The local government officer] may be subject to suit and may be liable for injuries and damages caused by the negligent performance of, or negligent failure to perform, their ministerial functions and may be liable for injuries and damages if they act with actual malice or with actual intent to cause injury in the performance of their official functions. Ga. Const. art. 1 § II, ¶ IX(d).”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]he sovereign immunity of the state and its departments and agencies can only be waived by an Act of the General Assembly which specifically provides that sovereign immunity is thereby waived and the extent of such waiver.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“The General Assembly may waive the immunity of counties, municipalities, and school districts by law.”
6 later decisions 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.