Elliott v. Leavitt

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that an employee’s complete departure from the scope of employment will exonerate an em- ployer from liability as a matter of law
• An employee’s complete departure from the scope of employment and the intended use of a company vehicle will exonerate the owners from liability as a matter of law.
• An employee's complete departure from the scope of employment and the intended use of a company vehicle will exonerate the owners from liability as a matter of law.
• employee’s “complete departure from the scope of employment and the intended use of the [company] vehicle” relieves the vehicle’s owner from liability as a matter of law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Harrison v. Lawhorne
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1973-10-29· cited 17×
• Grant v. Jones
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-11-01· cited 12×
• DeHart v. Liberty Mutual Insurance
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-12-04· cited 12×
• McElwee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1978-09-06· cited 11×
• Crow v. Evans
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-07-08· cited 9×
• Coe v. Carroll & Carroll, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-25· cited 9×
• Unigard Insurance v. Elmore
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1976-01-29· cited 6×
• Richard Hicks v. Gregory Middleton
  Eleventh Circuit· 2025-06-18· cited 3×
• TAIRAN BLAKE v. TRIBE EXPRESS, INC.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2021-08-26

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ditmyer v. American Liberty Insurance
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1968-03-28· cited 38×
• Strickland v. Georgia Casualty & Surety Co.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1968-07-02· cited 34×
• Interstate Life & Accident Insurance v. Whitlock
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1965-09-09· cited 31×
• Roebuck v. Payne
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1964-04-02· cited 30×
• Reddy-Waldhauer-Maffett Co. v. Spivey
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1936-02-25· cited 26×
• Pittman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1964-11-12· cited 25×
• Russell v. Pitts
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1961-11-30· cited 23×
• Craven v. Allen
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1968-10-08· cited 11×
• Cotton States Mutual Insurance v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1968-10-07· cited 6×