Ryckeley v. Callaway

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming trial court's grant of motion to dismiss plaintiffs' emotional distress claim arising from defendants' damaging of private burial ground
• evaluating exception with respect to an intentional infliction of emotional distress claim
• “[E]ven malicious, willful or wanton conduct will not warrant a recovery for the infliction of emotional distress if the conduct was not directed toward the plaintiff.”
• even if defendants’ destruction of cemetery was “malicious, wilful or wanton,” so that plaintiffs did not need to show physical impact, plaintiffs could not recover for intentional infliction of emotional harm where defendant’s conduct was not directed toward plaintiffs
• wilful act must be directed at plaintiff

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Peterson v. Islamic Republic of Iran
  District of Columbia· 2007-09-07· cited 177×
• Doe Ex Rel. Doe v. Roman Catholic Diocese of Nashville
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2005-01-18· cited 117×
• Lee v. State Farm Mutual Insurance
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2000-07-10· cited 80×
• Moody v. Dykes
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-03-16· cited 60×
• Holbrook v. Stansell
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-03-06· cited 55×
• Dammarell v. Islamic Republic of Iran
  District of Columbia· 2005-12-14· cited 48×
• O'NEAL v. Home Town Bank of Villa Rica
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-03-12· cited 41×
• Smith v. Stewart
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-03-28· cited 33×
• In re Tri-State Crematory Litigation
  N.D. Georgia· 2003-03-17· cited 33×
• Alternative Health Care Systems, Inc. v. McCown
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-03-16· cited 28×
• Bauer v. North Fulton Medical Center, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-12-16· cited 27×
• Munoz v. American Lawyer Media, L.P.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-02-15· cited 26×
• Lively v. McDaniel
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-09-22· cited 25×
• Travis Pruitt & Associates, P.C. v. Hooper
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-12-01· cited 24×
• H. J. Russell & Co. v. Jones
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-06-08· cited 24×
• Ford v. Whipple
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-02-13· cited 21×
• Wolff v. Middlebrooks
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-06-18· cited 20×
• Wellborn v. DeKalb County School District
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-06-27· cited 18×
• Evans v. Willis
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-02-08· cited 17×
• Pryor v. CCEC, INC.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-09-18· cited 17×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Westview Cemetery, Inc. v. Blanchard
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-05-20· cited 117×
• OB-Gyn Associates of Albany v. Littleton
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-12-05· cited 98×
• Sanders v. Brown
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1986-03-11· cited 30×
• Blanchard v. Westview Cemetery, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1971-06-08· cited 12×
• Blanchard v. Westview Cemetery, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1971-12-01· cited 12×
• Callaway v. Ryckeley
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-03-15· cited 2×