Arrington v. Trammell

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• deciding “whether there was any evidence to authorize a finding by the jury that the conduct of the defendant amounted to wantonness,” which was “the sole issue” on appeal, and defining the phrase 22 “reckless (wanton) misconduct” (emphasis supplied)
• noting that there were Georgia cases holding that wantonness could not be established absent “proof that the misconduct is reckless in the degree that the jury would be 26 justified to find it equivalent in spirit to actual intent” (emphasis supplied)

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Cited by

21 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Carpenter v. Forshee
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1961-05-31· cited 38×
• Sammons v. Webb
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1952-06-13· cited 37×
• Currid v. DeKalb State Court Probation Department
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-07-12· cited 37×
• Laite v. Baxter
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1972-06-22· cited 35×
• Lassiter v. Poss
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1952-03-14· cited 35×
• Major v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-05-15· cited 31×
• Poole v. City of Louisville
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1963-01-31· cited 26×
• Insurance Co. of North America v. Gulf Oil Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1962-06-22· cited 26×
• McKinsey v. Wade
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1975-09-26· cited 17×
• Herring v. R. L. Mathis Certified Dairy Co.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1970-02-05· cited 16×
• CHRYSLER GROUP, LLC v. WALDEN Et Al.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-11-15· cited 15×
• Sletto v. Hospital Authority of Houston County
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-07-16· cited 14×
• Hardrick v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1957-11-13· cited 12×
• Landers v. Medford
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1963-10-18· cited 10×
• Ford Motor Company v. Cosper
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2023-09-19· cited 5×
• Cabral v. White
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-01-23· cited 4×
• Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Moreland
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1970-11-18· cited 4×
• Strickland v. Doran
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1973-11-13· cited 4×
• Whisnant v. Whisnant
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1967-10-06· cited 3×
• Thomas v. Etheridge
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1953-12-02· cited 2×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chenall v. Palmer Brick Co.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1903-02-07· cited 104×
• New York Central Railroad v. Mohney
  Supreme Court· 1920-03-01· cited 63×
• Harris v. Reid
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1923-04-14· cited 60×
• Southern Railway Co. v. Davis
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1909-06-24· cited 58×
• Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. O'Neal
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1934-12-14· cited 43×
• Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Moore
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1909-02-09· cited 39×
• Central Railroad & Banking Co. v. Denson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1890-07-07· cited 34×
• Jordan v. Lee
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1935-04-09· cited 24×
• Lanier v. Bugg
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1924-04-25· cited 21×
• Richardson v. Pollard
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1938-03-18· cited 18×
• Flannigan v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1911-04-12· cited 11×
• Pressley v. Atlanta & West Point Railroad
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1934-02-02· cited 11×
• Forster v. Southern Railway Co.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1929-01-22· cited 6×
• Weight v. Central of Georgia Railway Co.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1916-06-27· cited 5×
• Lester v. Foster
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1929-11-12· cited 5×