Horton v. Potter’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “When Congress authorized federal employees to sue the federal government for violation of the civil rights laws, it conditioned such authorization on the “plaintiffs satisfaction of ‘rigorous administrative exhaustion requirements and time limitations.’ ” One of these requirements is that the “aggrieved person must initiate contact with a[n EEO] Counselor within 45 days of the date of the matter alleged to be discriminatory or, in the case of personnel action, within 45 days of the effective date of the action.” Timely contact with an EEO counselor is an administrative remedy that a federal employee must invoke before he may bring a claim of employment discrimination in federal district court.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ferguson v. Snow

2. “that there is an absence of evidence to support the nonmoving party's case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 377 F. Supp. 3d 762 - Operating Engineers' Local 324 Fringe Benefit Funds v. J. C. Holly Contracting, Inc.