Carter v. Glenn

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming grant of summary judgment to city employees on basis of official immunity and dismissing negligent hiring claims
• finding police chief entitled to official immunity against negligent hiring and retention claim because' such decisions were discretionary
• affirming grant of summary judgment where city’s purchase of liability insurance did not waive immunity, and where no question of fact remained concerning city officials’ actual malice in hiring and retaining a police officer who raped the plaintiff
• “[T]he act of establishing a policy in the first place is discretionary . . . .”
• operation of police department, including degree of supervision over officers, is a discretionary act
• “The operation of a police department, including the degree of training and supervision to be provided its officers, is a discretionary governmental function of the municipality as opposed to a ministerial, proprietary, or administratively routine function.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Williams ex rel. Williams v. Fulton County School District
  N.D. Georgia· 2016-03-31· cited 40×
• Harvey v. Nichols
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-02-27· cited 38×
• Russell v. Barrett
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-02-16· cited 21×
• Clark v. Prison Health Services, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-10-09· cited 15×
• Middlebrooks v. Bibb County
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-05-22· cited 14×
• Simon v. City of Atlanta
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-08-07· cited 13×
• Weaver v. City of Statesboro
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-10-24· cited 12×
• Hicks v. McGee
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-02-22· cited 10×
• Manders v. Lee
  Eleventh Circuit· 2002-03-14· cited 9×
• Carter v. Butts County
  M.D. Georgia· 2015-06-02· cited 7×
• Polk County v. Ellington
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-09-23· cited 6×
• Richardson v. Quitman County
  M.D. Georgia· 2012-12-17· cited 6×
• Tisdale v. Gravitt
  N.D. Georgia· 2014-09-30· cited 5×
• Jackson v. Payne
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-26· cited 5×
• Boyd v. Nichols
  M.D. Georgia· 2009-05-05· cited 3×
• CSX Transp., Inc. v. City of Garden City, Georgia
  S.D. Georgia· 2002-02-25· cited 3×
• Garrett v. Unified Government of Athens-Clarke County
  M.D. Georgia· 2003-02-28· cited 1×
• Willie Santonio Manders v. Thurman Lee
  Eleventh Circuit· 2002-03-14
• Davis v. Batchelor
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-10-30
• Linda Michelle Ware v. Theodore Jackson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-10-21

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Lau's Corp., Inc. v. Haskins
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-06-27· cited 2,024×
• Woodard v. Laurens County
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1995-05-15· cited 89×
• Goring v. Martinez
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-12-05· cited 62×
• Joyce v. Van Arsdale
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-05-29· cited 60×
• Keenan v. Plouffe
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-03· cited 39×
• McDay v. City of Atlanta
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-06-10· cited 38×
• Carter v. Glenn
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-03-29· cited 37×
• Harry v. Glynn County
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-06-01· cited 37×
• Lincoln County v. Edmond
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-04-01· cited 35×
• Stone v. Taylor
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-08-14· cited 31×
• Schmidt v. Adams
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-11-30· cited 27×
• Lowe v. Jones County
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-03-09· cited 27×