Christensen v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “assault and battery” exception barred negligence action against state agencies by women raped by parolee
• even assuming hospital denied treatment, hospital employees’ decision whether to admit or discharge a patient is a discretionary act
• three elderly plaintiffs brought suit after they were raped and assaulted by a convicted rapist on parole after the state denied him medical and psychiatric care
• three elderly plaintiffs brought suit after they were raped and assaulted by a convicted rapist on parole after the state denied him medical and psychiatric care
• decided before Brown, but case does not discuss statutory definition of discretionary function
• probation officers enjoy qualified immunity arising from performance of official governmental functions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Keenan v. Plouffe
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1997-03-03· cited 39×
• Howard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-05-22· cited 38×
• Presto v. Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-05-13· cited 35×
• Brantley v. Department of Human Resources
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-11-15· cited 34×
• Department of Human Resources v. Coley
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-12-15· cited 26×
• Georgia Military College v. Santamorena
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-03-17· cited 24×
• Southerland v. Georgia Department of Corrections
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-06-12· cited 20×
• Sylvester v. Department of Transportation
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-10-12· cited 19×
• Smith v. Chemtura Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-03-17· cited 19×
• Bynum v. Horizon Staffing
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-02-24· cited 14×
• Sumner v. Department of Human Resources
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-03-04· cited 13×
• Sherin v. Department of Human Resources
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-11-04· cited 11×
• Georgia Pines Community Service Board v. Summerlin
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-29· cited 10×
• Tucker v. Thomas C. Talley, M.D., P.C.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-06-14· cited 9×
• Miller v. Department of Public Safety
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-04-19· cited 8×
• Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital v. Wilkins
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-03-08· cited 8×
• Darnell v. Houston County Board of Education
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-08-18· cited 8×
• Brooks v. Multibank 2009-1 RES-ADC Venture, LLC
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-07-12· cited 8×
• Leverette v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-27· cited 7×
• Redding v. Walker
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-03-21· cited 5×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Joyce v. Van Arsdale
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-05-29· cited 60×
• Department of Human Resources v. Hutchinson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-03-15· cited 49×
• Swofford v. Cooper
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-07-31· cited 45×
• Premium Distributing Co. v. National Distributing Co.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-02-25· cited 42×
• Partain v. Maddox
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1974-04-23· cited 40×
• McDay v. City of Atlanta
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-06-10· cited 38×
• Roberts v. Grigsby
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-12-20· cited 21×
• Brooks v. Boykin
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-03-13· cited 18×
• Sentry Insurance v. Echols
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-03-27· cited 13×
• Bonner v. Fox
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-06-01· cited 12×
• Ragsdale v. New England Land & Development Corp.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-11-16· cited 9×
• Davis v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-06-20· cited 9×
• Deaton v. Department of Corrections
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-03-28· cited 1×