Campbell v. Anderson County

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a plaintiff whose alleged injuries arose in the context of her civil rights claims could not avoid GTLA immunity merely by “couching” her claim in terms of negligence
• holding that a plaintiff whose alleged injuries arose in the context of her civil rights claims could not avoid GTLA immunity merely by “couching” her claim in terms of negligence
• holding that a plaintiff whose alleged injuries arose in the context of her civil rights claims could not avoid TGTLA immunity merely by “couching” her claim in terms of negligence
• finding that the County was immune from the state law claims under the TGTLA because the claims were predicated on intentional tortious conduct involving the violation of her civil rights under Section 1983
• rejecting as a “viable legal theory” the argument that “the plainly obvious result of [a municipality’s] lack of supervision” of one of its deputy sheriffs “would be a sexual assault”
• “[N]o specific training [i]s necessary to inform officers not to rape or sexually assault women in their custody.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Johnson v. City of Memphis
  Sixth Circuit· 2010-08-24· cited 110×
• Okolo v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville
  M.D. Tennessee· 2012-08-30· cited 81×
• Dillingham v. Millsaps
  E.D. Tennessee· 2011-08-10· cited 27×
• Doe v. City of Demopolis
  S.D. Alabama· 2011-06-30· cited 13×
• Pauls v. Green
  D. Idaho· 2011-09-07· cited 6×
• Teresa Lynn Jackson v. Aaron Thomas, Individually and in his Official Capacity as Circuit Court Clerk of Jackson County, Tennessee
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-03-23
• Monica Johnson v. City of Memphis
  Sixth Circuit· 2010-08-24
• Estate of Barnwell ex rel. Barnwell v. Roane County
  E.D. Tennessee· 2015-04-09
• Lisa Kelley v. Nathaniel Root
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2024-01-29
• Jospheen Guirguis v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2025-09-05

Cites

29 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, Administratrix of the Estate of Catrett
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-25· cited 119,442×
• Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Corporation
  Supreme Court· 1986-03-26· cited 58,760×
• Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-06· cited 41,449×
• City of Canton v. Harris
  Supreme Court· 1989-02-28· cited 10,043×
• Board of the County Commissioners of Bryan County v. Brown
  Supreme Court· 1997-04-28· cited 7,185×
• Hafer v. Melo
  Supreme Court· 1991-11-05· cited 4,063×
• City of Oklahoma v. Tuttle
  Supreme Court· 1985-08-14· cited 3,810×
• Tjymas Blackmore v. Kalamazoo County
  Sixth Circuit· 2004-12-07· cited 1,296×
• Cleamtee Garner, Father and Next-Of-Kin of Edward Eugene Garner, a Deceased Minor v. Memphis Police Department City of Memphis, Tennessee
  Sixth Circuit· 1993-12-07· cited 859×
• Barney v. Pulsipher
  Tenth Circuit· 1998-05-01· cited 805×
• 60 Ivy Street Corporation (86-5500), and Coldwell Banker Commercial Group, Inc., (86-5517) v. R.C. Alexander and Doris Alexander
  Sixth Circuit· 1987-08-17· cited 674×
• Gregory v. City of Louisville
  Sixth Circuit· 2006-04-11· cited 649×
• Donald L. Hays, Jr., and Michael C. Potter, Cross-Appellants v. Jefferson County, Kentucky, Wilbur Bilyeu and Russell McDaniel Cross-Appellees
  Sixth Circuit· 1982-01-04· cited 623×
• Katherine Gardenhire and Walter Gardenhire v. Donald Schubert, in His Individual and Official Capacity as Chief of Police
  Sixth Circuit· 2000-03-02· cited 498×
• Bruce Collyer v. Gregory Darling
  Sixth Circuit· 1997-01-06· cited 458×
• Russo v. City of Cincinnati
  Sixth Circuit· 1992-01-15· cited 373×
• Albert White v. Turfway Park Racing Association, Inc.
  Sixth Circuit· 1990-08-01· cited 270×
• Gregory v. Shelby County
  Sixth Circuit· 2000-07-12· cited 254×
• Sewell v. Town of Lake Hamilton, FL
  Eleventh Circuit· 1997-07-21· cited 233×
• Ford v. County of Grand Traverse
  Sixth Circuit· 2008-08-05· cited 143×