Simmons v. Kroger Co.

How courts have described this case

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• summary judgment on tortious misconduct precluded where customer was detained, threatened with arrest if he resisted, grabbed by the arm, and escorted to security office
• summary judgment on tortious misconduct precluded where customer was detained, threatened with arrest if he resisted, grabbed by the arm, and escorted to security office
• because the elements of false imprisonment and false arrest are different, denial of summary judgment on one claim does not preclude grant of summary judgment on the other
• summary judgment on tortious misconduct precluded where uniformed, armed store security guard detained customer, threatened him with arrest if he resisted, grabbed him by the arm, and escorted him to security office, in full view of other customers in crowded store
• summary judgment on tortious misconduct precluded where uniformed, armed store security guard detained customer, threatened him with arrest if he resisted, grabbed him by the arm, and escorted him to security office, in full view of other customers in crowded store

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• 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×
• Adams v. Carlisle
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-03-30· cited 28×
• Desmond v. Troncalli Mitsubishi
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2000-03-24· cited 21×
• Todd v. Byrd
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-12-01· cited 15×
• Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Johnson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-03-14· cited 15×
• Kirkland v. Earth Fare, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2008-02-29· cited 15×
• Brown v. Super Discount Markets, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1996-09-27· cited 9×
• Mohamud v. Wachovia Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-03-11· cited 7×
• Simmons v. Mableton Finance Co.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-03-21· cited 7×
• Wallace v. Stringer
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-07-31· cited 6×
• Wolter v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-01-14· cited 5×
• Tyrone Carnegay v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-02-14
• Kim W. Sheffield v. Jim Futch
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2020-02-20

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Culwell v. Lomas & Nettleton Company
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-09-27· cited 101×
• K-Mart Corp. v. Coker
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1991-12-05· cited 36×
• Kemp v. Rouse-Atlanta, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-02-24· cited 35×
• United States Shoe Corp. v. Jones
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-04-13· cited 31×
• McGonagil v. Treadwell
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-03-10· cited 21×
• Swift v. S. S. Kresge Co.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-09-14· cited 21×
• Pinkston v. City of Albany
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-06-06· cited 17×
• Gantt v. Patient Communications Systems, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-06-11· cited 17×
• Fly v. Kroger Co.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-06-16· cited 15×
• Bi-Lo, Inc. v. McConnell
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-03-13· cited 13×
• Doe v. Village of St. Joseph, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-01-29· cited 12×
• Brown v. Winn-Dixie Atlanta, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-11-30· cited 8×
• McMillan v. Day Realty Associates, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1981-06-29· cited 8×
• State v. Henderson
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-11-14· cited 7×