Lagroon v. Lawson

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that officers acted with actual malice where they coerced witnesses into giving false statements or outright fabricated witness statements and then used those statements to knowingly engage in wrongful prosecution
• concluding that officers acted with actual malice where they coerced witnesses into giving false statements or outright fabricated witness statements and then used those statements to knowingly engage in wrongful prosecution
• looking to Georgia law for elements of § 1983 malicious prosecution claim
• malice needed to make out an action for malicious prosecution “may be inferred from circumstances”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ernest Edgar Black Jeff Wigington
  Eleventh Circuit· 2016-01-22· cited 170×
• Mercado v. Swoope
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2017-03-10· cited 11×
• Vandiver v. Meriwether Cnty.
  N.D. Georgia· 2018-08-07· cited 3×
• Brown v. City of Atlanta
  N.D. Georgia· 2018-01-09· cited 2×
• Daniel Gryder v. Trey Conley
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2019-10-31
• Kim W. Sheffield v. Jim Futch
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-02-20

Cites

24 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Prophecy Corp. v. Charles Rossignol, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-05-28· cited 517×
• Thompson v. Ezor
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-10-02· cited 67×
• McDowell v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-06-29· cited 50×
• Medoc Corp. v. Keel
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-04-27· cited 45×
• Willis v. Brassell
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-02-27· cited 43×
• Marshall v. Browning
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-05-13· cited 43×
• Anderson v. Cobb
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-10-24· cited 33×
• Ferrell v. Mikula
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-11-25· cited 32×
• McCord v. Jones
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-11-17· cited 29×
• Adams v. Carlisle
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-03-30· cited 28×
• Bateast v. Dekalb County
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-10-22· cited 27×
• Condon v. Vickery
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-11-03· cited 23×
• City of Atlanta v. Shavers
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-11· cited 20×
• Beckom v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-06-20· cited 18×
• Stolte v. Hammack
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-09-16· cited 17×
• Garner v. Heilig-Meyers Furniture Co.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-11-12· cited 15×
• State v. Davis
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-09-06· cited 13×
• Harmon v. Redding
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1975-06-13· cited 10×
• Griswold v. Collins
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-11-16· cited 9×
• Brooks v. H & H CREEK, INC.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-11-20· cited 7×