Grammens v. Dollar

How courts have described this case

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

• holding teacher shielded by official immunity because school policy did not define key term, therefore requiring teacher to exercise discretion in implementation of the policy
• noting that public officer is personally liable for acts negligently performed or acts performed with malice or an intent to injure
• finding that because a written policy did not define a term, it required a teacher to engage in a discretionary act
• stating that official is entitled to immunity unless plaintiff can show that officer acted with actual malice or an intent to injure in undertaking his discretionary acts of hiring and retaining em- ployees
• teacher failed to offer eye protection to student, who was subsequently injured during science experiment
• written policy requiring eye protection when students use “explosive materials” required discretion because that term was not defined, requiring teacher to determine if policy applied

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Nilesh S. Patel v. James Smith
  Eleventh Circuit· 2020-08-11· cited 139×
• Estelle Smith v. Richard L. LePage, Jr.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2016-08-25· cited 114×
• Roper v. Greenway
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-11-18· cited 47×
• Williams ex rel. Williams v. Fulton County School District
  N.D. Georgia· 2016-03-31· cited 40×
• Hicks v. McGee
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-07-05· cited 34×
• Barnett v. Caldwell
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-01-29· cited 30×
• Glass v. Gates
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-09-01· cited 28×
• Howell v. Willis
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-06-29· cited 21×
• Wyno v. Lowndes County
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 19×
• BOARD OF COM'RS OF GLYNN COUNTY v. Johnson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-09-14· cited 18×
• HILL v. JACKSON Et Al.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-03-24· cited 18×
• Eshleman v. Key
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-29· cited 17×
• Wyno v. Lowndes Cnty.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-02-18· cited 17×
• Davis v. Effingham County Board of Commissioners
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-01· cited 15×
• Pearce v. Tucker
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2016-06-20· cited 14×
• Bomia v. Ben Hill County School District
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2013-03-15· cited 14×
• Barnard v. Turner County
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-09-28· cited 13×
• JOBLING Et Al. v. SHELTON
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2015-11-23· cited 7×
• BARNETT Et Al. v. ATLANTA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL SYSTEM Et Al.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2016-11-04· cited 7×
• James Martin v. David Ledbetter
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-06-29· cited 7×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Cameron v. Lang
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-06-25· cited 276×
• Murphy v. Bajjani
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-25· cited 160×
• Nelson v. Spalding County
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-04-29· cited 76×
• McDowell v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-29· cited 50×
• Lincoln County v. Edmond
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-04-01· cited 35×
• Standard v. Hobbs
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-11-04· cited 34×
• Perkins v. Morgan County School District
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-08-26· cited 29×
• Meagher v. Quick
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-12-11· cited 27×
• Happoldt v. Kutscher
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-06-24· cited 20×
• Wanless v. Tatum
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-07-10· cited 18×
• Dollar v. Grammens
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-11-26· cited 4×