Jackson v. Payne

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that whether deputies acted with actual malice was a question of fact when a jury could reasonably infer the defendant-deputies arrested plaintiff without authority and “thereby deliberately intend[ed] to do a wrongful act”
• where there was evidence that deputies “arrested [the plaintiff] during the execution of [a] fi. fa. and detained him without authority, thereby deliberately intending to do a wrongful act,” jury question existed as to actual malice
• “[T]he operation of a police department, including the degree of training and supervision to be provided its officers, is a discretionary governmental function as opposed to a ministerial, proprietary, or administratively routine function.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

1 case in this archive cites this case.

• Lagroon v. Lawson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-09· cited 22×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gilbert v. Richardson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-11-21· cited 428×
• Seay v. Cleveland
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-10-26· cited 44×
• McDay v. City of Atlanta
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-06-10· cited 38×
• Harvey v. Nichols
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-02-27· cited 38×
• Carter v. Glenn
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-04-27· cited 28×
• Bateast v. Dekalb County
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-10-22· cited 27×
• Bontwell v. Department of Corrections
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-05-22· cited 24×