264 Ga. App. 566 - Smith v. Chatham County’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
June 2017
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gilbert v. Richardson · Cameron v. Lang · Merrow v. Hawkins · Adams v. Hazelwood · Woodard v. Laurens County
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`vehicle pursuit is justified only when a Chatham County police officer has reasonable grounds to believe the offender has committed or is attempting to commit a forcible felony or when the necessity of immediate apprehension outweighs the level of danger created by the pursuit.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“conduct exhibiting a reckless disregard for the safety of others does not equate with the actual malice necessary to defeat a claim of official immunity.”
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.