Merrow v. Hawkins

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that, for purposes of official immunity, actual malice does not include even acts taken with reckless disregard for the rights of others
• holding that an officer “is entitled to official immunity unless he acted with actual malice.”
• holding that implied malice is reckless disregard as compared with actual malice which is an intent to do wrong
• explaining that because a jailer was ex- ercising discretionary power, he was entitled to official immunity unless he acted with “actual malice”
• distinguishing “actual malice” from “ ‘implied malice’, a term which has been defined to mean conduct exhibiting a ‘reckless disregard for human life’ ”
• noting that official immunity “developed primarily through case law”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Cameron v. Lang
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-06-25· cited 276×
• Saleem Bashir v. Rockdale County, Georgia
  Eleventh Circuit· 2006-04-14· cited 195×
• Murphy v. Bajjani
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-06-25· cited 160×
• Adams v. Hazelwood
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1999-09-13· cited 122×
• Derrick Bailey v. Major Tommy Wheeler
  Eleventh Circuit· 2016-11-28· cited 116×
• Estelle Smith v. Richard L. LePage, Jr.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2016-08-25· cited 114×
• Lathrop v. Deal
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-06-19· cited 111×
• Martha Hoyt v. Bernard Cooks
  Eleventh Circuit· 2012-02-27· cited 89×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-11-23· cited 56×
• Selvy v. Morrison
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-07-11· cited 49×
• Reed v. DeKalb County
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-10-22· cited 40×
• Lisa Y.S. West v. Deputy Terry Davis
  Eleventh Circuit· 2014-09-08· cited 40×
• Williams ex rel. Williams v. Fulton County School District
  N.D. Georgia· 2016-03-31· cited 40×
• Crisp County School System v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-06-11· cited 39×
• Cantrell v. Thurman
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1998-03-24· cited 35×
• Tittle v. Corso
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-10-15· cited 33×
• Anderson v. Cobb
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-10-24· cited 33×
• Phillips v. Hanse
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2006-10-16· cited 30×
• Conley v. Dawson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-10-01· cited 29×
• Adams v. Carlisle
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-03-30· cited 28×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court· 1964-03-09· cited 8,531×
• Gilbert v. Richardson
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-11-21· cited 428×
• Logue v. Wright
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1990-04-20· cited 81×
• Nelson v. Spalding County
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1982-04-29· cited 76×
• Postill v. Booth Newspapers, Inc
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1982-08-23· cited 55×
• Flynn v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1986-02-13· cited 48×
• Partain v. Maddox
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1974-04-23· cited 40×
• Mathis v. Nelson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1949-07-13· cited 30×
• Bishop v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1987-06-04· cited 16×
• Sparks v. Thurmond
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-05-31· cited 14×