289 Ga. App. 757 - Chisolm v. Tippens’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 20 U.S.C. § 1400 (Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975) · 20 U.S.C. § 6301 (Charter School Expansion Act of 1998) · 29 U.S.C. § 794 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Murphy v. Bajjani · 198 Ga. App. 49 - Rolleston v. Huite · 217 Ga. App. 829 - Teston v. Collins · 226 Ga. App. 800 - Crisp County School System v. Brown · 286 Ga. App. 363 - Fink v. Dodd
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 10 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“may be held personally liable only for ministerial acts negligently performed or acts performed with malice or intent to injure. In other words, [they] can only be sued in their official capacities if they (1) negligently perform a ministerial duty, or (2) act with actual malice or actual intent to cause injury while performing a discretionary function.”
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.