Coffee County School District v. Snipes

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that counties are entitled to state sovereign immunity
• reversing denial of summary judgment when plaintiff had not pointed to any “legislative act specifically providing that the sovereign immunity of [a] school district is waived and the extent of such waiver”
• county-wide school districts are political subdivisions of the State

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Teston v. Collins
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-07-13· cited 47×
• Zaneta (Joi) Rainey Lightfoot v. Henry County School District
  Eleventh Circuit· 2014-11-10· cited 45×
• Crisp County School System v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-06-11· cited 39×
• Cantrell v. Thurman
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-03-24· cited 35×
• Harper v. Patterson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-11-15· cited 28×
• Daniels v. Gordon
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-06-09· cited 22×
• LIBERTY COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT Et Al. v. HALLIBURTON
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-31· cited 21×
• Payne v. Twiggs County School District
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-04-13· cited 19×
• Wellborn v. DeKalb County School District
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-06-27· cited 18×
• Cosby v. Lewis
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-23· cited 17×
• Hackett v. Fulton County School District
  N.D. Georgia· 2002-08-12· cited 17×
• Gamble v. Ware County Board of Education
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-02-19· cited 16×
• Davis v. Dublin City Board of Education
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-11-20· cited 15×
• Bomia v. Ben Hill County School District
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-15· cited 14×
• Holbrook v. Executive Conference Center, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-11-17· cited 13×
• Rawls v. Bulloch County School District
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-10-16· cited 10×
• Dollar v. Dalton Public Schools
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-08-11· cited 10×
• Miller v. Georgia Ports Authority
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-10-20· cited 9×
• Simmons v. Coweta County
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-04-03· cited 9×
• Darnell v. Houston County Board of Education
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-08-18· cited 8×

Cites

14 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×
• Gilbert v. Richardson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-11-21· cited 428×
• Hennessy v. Webb
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1980-02-27· cited 141×
• City of Thomaston v. Bridges
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-21· cited 45×
• Thomas v. Hospital Authority
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-02-28· cited 38×
• Curtis v. Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1992-05-21· cited 36×
• Guthrie v. Irons
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-12-03· cited 29×
• Cotton States Mutual Insurance v. Keefe
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1960-04-07· cited 25×
• Hicks v. Walker County School District
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-10-04· cited 22×
• Thigpen v. McDUFFIE COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1985-10-02· cited 21×
• Lewis v. McDowell
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-01-10· cited 12×
• Sisson v. Douglas County School District
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-12-01· cited 10×
• Towns v. Suttles
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1952-03-11· cited 7×
• Daniels v. Decatur County
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-02-22· cited 4×