Bray v. Houston County

How courts have described this case

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

• “The safeguarding of society by the prosecution of crimes against it is a sovereign attribute inherent in all governments, and for mistakes in exercising this sovereign right there can be no liability against the government without its consent.”
• “The safeguarding of society by the prosecution of crimes against it is a sovereign attribute inherent in all governments, and for mistakes in exercising this sovereign right there can be no liability against the government without its consent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Customer Co. v. City of Sacramento
  California Supreme Court· 1995-06-12· cited 78×
• McElmurray v. Augusta-Richmond County
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-07-11· cited 14×
• Hussey, Gay & Bell v. Georgia Ports Authority
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-06-08· cited 12×
• Patterson v. Butler
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-07-01· cited 1×
• Amica Mutual Insurance v. Gwinnett County Police Department
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-02-19· cited 1×
• Blue 42 Organics, LLC v. Georgia Department of Public Safety
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-06-17
• Amica Mutual Insurance Company v. Gwinnett County
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-02-19

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Pope v. City of Atlanta
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-09-27· cited 36×
• McCoy v. Sanders
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1966-04-29· cited 26×
• Lindsey v. Guhl
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-09-07· cited 17×
• Lewis v. DeKalb County
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-06-02· cited 10×
• Johnson v. Chatham County
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-06-16· cited 9×