302 Ga. App. 854 - Gish v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Cameron v. Lang · Currid v. DeKalb State Court Probation Department · Davis v. City of Roswell · 256 Ga. App. 859 - Tittle v. Corso · Harry v. Glynn 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[wjhile the Sheriffs Office does provide some guidance on prisoner transport, nothing in the policies can be said to render the act of prisoner transport ministerial; Deputy Gilmer still had wide discretion in handling his job and much of the specifics of prisoner transport were left to his personal judgment. Further, it is clear that the danger inherent in prisoner transport and the judgment that must be applied to handle different transportees renders the act discretionary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Speight v. Griggs“providing for a waiver of sovereign immunity are in derogation of the common law and thus are to be strictly construed against a finding of waiver.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“implied waivers of sovereign immunity are not favored.”
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.