Brissey v. Ellison

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing the right of a plaintiff to sue to enforce a public duty while disallowing a suit to correct a wrongful act
• “Mandamus is not the proper remedy to compel the undoing of acts already done or the correction of wrongs already perpetrated.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Adams v. Georgia Department of Corrections
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-10-05· cited 15×
• City of Atlanta v. SOUTHERN STATES POLICE BENEVOLENT ASS'N
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-11-18· cited 10×
• Common Cause/Georgia v. Campbell
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-07-20· cited 10×
• United States v. Tempelman
  First Circuit· 2001-06-26· cited 5×
• Powell v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-01-22· cited 3×
• Gaw v. Telfair County Board of Commissioners
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-10-06· cited 2×
• Fein v. Bessen
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-10-31· cited 2×
• Glean v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-10-05· cited 1×
• Whitfield v. Hicks
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-11-20
• ECBI WARNER, LLC v. LARHONDA PATRICK IN HER OFFICIAL CAPACITY AS MAYOR OF THE CITY OF WARNER ROBINS
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2025-06-24

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Atlanta Independent School System v. Lane
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-04-08· cited 176×
• United States v. Union Central Life Insurance Co.
  Supreme Court· 1961-12-18· cited 68×
• Hilton Constuction Co. v. Rockdale County Board of Education
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-03-18· cited 51×
• Board of Commissioners v. Montgomery
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1930-04-16· cited 28×
• Arneson v. Board of Trustees of Employees' Retirement System
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-11-05· cited 27×
• Tate v. Stephens
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-03-18· cited 22×
• Head v. Browning
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1959-07-08· cited 19×
• League of Women Voters of Atlanta-Fulton County, Inc. v. City of Atlanta
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-02-11· cited 19×
• State v. Cafe Erotica, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-02· cited 13×
• Speedway Grading Corp. v. Barrow County Board of Commissioners
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-10-26· cited 11×
• Stephens v. Moran
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1965-05-06· cited 8×
• DeKalb County v. Druid Hills Civic Ass'n
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-07-13· cited 7×