Arnold v. Duchesne County’s Empirical Analysis
26 F.3d 982 · 1994
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Sheets v. Salt Lake County (1995), Beck v. City of Muskogee Police Department (1999)
13 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Monroe v. Pape · Landgraf v. USI Film Products · Wilson v. Garcia · Johnson v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Board of Regents of Univ. of State of NY v. Tomanio
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress surely did not intend to assign to state courts and legislatures a conclusive role in the formative function of defining and characterizing the essential elements of a federal cause of action.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Civil rights actions brought in Utah under other sections of the Civil Rights Act are arguably still covered by the residual four-year statute [§ 78-12-25(3) ].... Others suffering personal injuries from residual categories of state law torts (the jurisprudential equals to § 1983 plaintiffs ...) similarly enjoy a four-year limitations period. Section 1983 personal injury plaintiffs (i.e., those suffering personal injuries inflicted by someone acting under color of law) alone have been singled out for application of a two-year limitations period.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An action may be brought within two years: (1) against a marshal, sheriff, constable, or other officer for liability incurred by the doing of an act in his official capacity, and by virtue of his office, or by the omission of an official duty, including the non payment of money upon an execution; (2) for recovery of damages for a death caused by the wrongful act or neglect of another; or (3) in causes of action against the state and its employees, for injury to the personal rights of another if not otherwise provided by state or federal law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.