Upshaw v. Roberts Timber Co., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• one sixteen-year-old speeding ticket, twenty-three-year-old DUI, and one other speeding ticket “do[] not demonstrate a pattern of reckless driving”
• one sixteen-year-old speeding ticket, twenty-three-year-old DUI, and one other speeding ticket “do[] not demonstrate a pattern of reckless driving”
• An employer was not liable as a matter of law for its employee's negligent driving which occurred during a trip unrelated to the employee's employment to visit relatives.
• An employer was not liable as a matter of law for its employee’s negligent driving which occurred during a trip unrelated to the employee’s employment to visit relatives.
• “The entrustor is not liable merely because he or she, by the exercise of reasonable care and diligence, could have ascertained the fact of the incompetency of the driver.”
• “entrustor’s denial of having knowledge that the driver was incompetent or habitually reckless shifts the burden to the plaintiff to set forth specific facts showing a genuine fact issue”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hicks v. Heard
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-03-29· cited 25×
• Western Industries, Inc. v. Poole
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2006-07-10· cited 24×
• Hicks v. Heard
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-05-05· cited 15×
• Webb v. Day
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-06-01· cited 14×
• Cgl Facility Management, LLC v. Wiley
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-07-31· cited 12×
• Betsill v. Scale Systems, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2004-09-01· cited 10×
• Coe v. Carroll & Carroll, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2011-03-25· cited 9×
• Williams v. Ngo
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2007-12-19· cited 6×
• Littlefield Construction Co. v. Bozeman
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2012-03-05· cited 5×
• Scott v. LaRosa & LaRosa, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-08-12· cited 3×
• Williams v. Baker County
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-09-22· cited 3×
• MAXWELL RILEY v. ANTHONY A. BARRERAS
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2023-06-21

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Allen Kane's Major Dodge, Inc. v. Barnes
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-05-30· cited 148×
• Saunders v. Vikers
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1967-11-27· cited 77×
• TGM Ashley Lakes, Inc. v. Jennings
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-12-01· cited 43×
• Smith v. Tommy Roberts Trucking Co.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-07-16· cited 30×
• Marques v. Ross
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1961-11-15· cited 27×
• Melton v. Gilleland & Sons, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1985-10-10· cited 18×
• Evans v. Dixie Fasteners, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-04-08· cited 18×
• Healthdyne, Inc. v. Odom
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1984-12-05· cited 17×
• O'CONNELL v. Cora Bett Thomas Realty, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-03-19· cited 13×
• Trent v. Franco
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-12-19· cited 9×
• Short v. Miller
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-04-11· cited 9×
• Carolina Cable Contractors, Inc. v. Hattaway
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-05-12· cited 7×
• Spencer v. Gary Howard Enterprises, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-07-01· cited 6×
• Cotton v. Toole
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1987-06-18· cited 5×
• Eakin v. Meighen
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1997-08-07· cited 2×