Colby v. Boyden

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the officer was entitled to sovereign immunity, so the plaintiff had to establish gross negligence to prevail
• holding that a city police officer’s negligent actions involved in the pursuit of a speeding automobile were entitled to the protection of sovereign immunity
• holding that pursuit of a fleeing suspect by a city police officer was an act involving judgment and discretion
• holding that plaintiff failed to establish a prima facie case of gross negligence when the record showed that the defendant “did exercise some degree of diligence and due care”
• holding that deputy sheriff operating police car that collided with motorist was protected by sovereign immunity because he was engaged in discretionary governmental function; in such a case, gross negligence must be established
• finding that a police officer in vehicular pursuit was entitled to the protection of the doctrine

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Southers v. City of Farmington
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2008-09-30· cited 195×
• McLenagan v. Karnes
  Fourth Circuit· 1994-06-30· cited 124×
• Cooper v. Rodriguez
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2015-07-24· cited 114×
• Elliott v. Carter
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2016-10-27· cited 86×
• Heider v. Clemons
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-01-11· cited 60×
• Burns v. Gagnon
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2012-04-20· cited 59×
• Green v. Ingram
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2005-03-03· cited 57×
• Lohr v. Larsen
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1993-06-11· cited 57×
• Whitley v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-11-03· cited 54×
• Glasco v. Ballard
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1995-01-13· cited 52×
• National Railroad Passenger Corp. v. Catlett Volunteer Fire Co.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-04-19· cited 39×
• Stanfield v. Peregoy
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1993-04-16· cited 29×
• Commonwealth v. Giddens
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2018-07-19· cited 28×
• Friday-Spivey v. Collier
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2004-09-17· cited 26×
• Smith v. Settle
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1997-09-12· cited 25×
• Couplin v. Payne
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2005-06-09· cited 24×
• Borelli v. Renaldi
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2020-06-24· cited 24×
• Ware v. James City County, Virginia
  E.D. Virginia· 2009-09-04· cited 22×
• Veney v. Ojeda
  E.D. Virginia· 2004-06-15· cited 21×
• Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Hylton
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-06-09· cited 18×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• James v. Jane
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1980-06-06· cited 268×
• Messina v. Burden
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1984-10-12· cited 250×
• Colby v. Boyden
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1991-01-11· cited 114×
• Frazier v. City of Norfolk
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1987-11-25· cited 103×
• Lentz v. Morris
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-09-23· cited 74×
• Biscoe v. Arlington County
  D.C. Circuit· 1984-07-06· cited 70×
• Gargiulo v. Ohar
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1990-01-12· cited 65×
• Rose Hall Ltd. v. Chase Manhattan Overseas Banking Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-14· cited 57×
• Pullen v. Nickens
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1983-12-02· cited 56×
• Sayers v. Bullar
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1942-10-12· cited 55×
• Hyman v. Glover
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1986-09-05· cited 39×
• Virginia Transit Co. v. Tidd
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1952-12-01· cited 20×
• Meagher v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1990-03-02· cited 17×
• Smith v. Lámar
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1972-04-24· cited 14×
• Yates v. Potts
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1970-03-09· cited 13×
• White v. John Doe
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1966-06-13· cited 8×