Lucas v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “[The TGTLA] is not and never has been applicable to the State of Tennessee or its agencies and departments.”
• The GTLA “is not and never has been applicable to the State of Tennessee or its agencies and departments.”
• “Its [the county’s] liability to suit only extends to matters of contract and not to torts or the negligence of its employees.”
• “Once the common law origin of governmental immunity is established, the long settled rule of strict construction concerning statutes in derogation of the common law places a heavy burden on the back of a plaintiff suing a sovereign in tort.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Brown v. Tennessee Title Loans, Inc.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2010-11-29· cited 153×
• Corder v. Corder
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2006-11-30· cited 18×
• Holt v. MacY's Retail Holdings, Inc.
  W.D. Tennessee· 2010-06-07· cited 7×
• Lamb v. Tenth Judicial District Drug Task Force
  E.D. Tennessee· 2013-05-03· cited 7×
• Moore v. Houston County Board of Education
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-08-23· cited 6×
• James T. (Tom) Higdon v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-01-11· cited 5×
• State of Tennessee ex rel., Herbert S. Moncier v. Nancy S. Jones
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-06-06
• Candace Young v. Washington County, Tennessee
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-10-29
• Beth L. Wineland v. City of Cleveland, Tennessee
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-07-28
• Bill Travis v. Trustees of Lakewood Park v. Coffee County, Tennessee
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2010-09-03
• Deborah Shorter v. The Tennessee Department of Children's Services
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2005-02-24
• Teresa Powell Hudson, Individually and As Surviving Spouse and of the Estate of Robert Melvin Hudson v. Town of Jasper
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2013-10-22
• American Heritage Apartments, Inc. v. The Hamilton County Water and Wastewater Treatment Authority, Hamilton County, Tennessee
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2015-01-30
• Kim Hardy v. Tournament Players Club at Southwind, Inc. d/b/a \TPC Southwind\ - DISSENT
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2015-07-02
• Scott A. Padgett v. Clarksville-Montgomery County School System
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2018-11-09
• Irene Howard v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2021-08-26
• Jeffrey Polhamus v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2022-06-02
• Connie Reguli v. Tracy Hetzel
  Sixth Circuit· 2026-06-16

Cites

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

• Harlow v. Fitzgerald
  Supreme Court· 1982-06-24· cited 22,846×
• Scheuer v. Rhodes
  Supreme Court· 1974-04-17· cited 13,385×
• Anderson v. Creighton
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-25· cited 12,768×
• Mitchell v. Forsyth
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-19· cited 8,858×
• Imbler v. Pachtman
  Supreme Court· 1976-03-02· cited 7,274×
• Malley v. Briggs
  Supreme Court· 1986-03-05· cited 6,748×
• Stump v. Sparkman
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-05· cited 5,547×
• Butz v. Economou
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-29· cited 3,397×
• Gomez v. Toledo
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-27· cited 2,697×
• Davis v. Scherer
  Supreme Court· 1984-08-16· cited 2,605×
• Wood v. Strickland
  Supreme Court· 1975-04-14· cited 2,195×
• Briscoe v. LaHue
  Supreme Court· 1983-03-07· cited 2,053×
• Procunier v. Navarette
  Supreme Court· 1978-02-22· cited 925×
• Gregoire v. Biddle
  Second Circuit· 1949-10-24· cited 876×
• Staples v. CBL & Associates, Inc.
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2000-03-20· cited 816×
• McCall v. Wilder
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1995-12-11· cited 633×
• Eastland v. United States Servicemen's Fund
  Supreme Court· 1975-05-27· cited 593×
• Gene Autrey Adams v. Paul Metiva
  Sixth Circuit· 1994-08-01· cited 585×
• Williams v. Mehra
  Sixth Circuit· 1999-08-04· cited 541×
• Northland Insurance Co. v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2000-12-08· cited 347×