Hale v. RANDOLPH COUNTY COM'N’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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

1. “"(a) Any non-elected law enforcement officer in the service of a county who is assigned to duty for more than eight hours during any one day or for more than 40 hours during any calendar week shall be paid time and one-half for such excess hours worked; . . . . "(b) Any such law enforcement officer who works overtime during any calendar month shall on the last day of such month file in writing a statement as to his election to accept overtime pay or compensatory leave. In the event such law enforcement officer elects to receive overtime pay, such pay shall be included with his compensation for the next succeeding pay period."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 578 So. 2d 1070 - Geneva County Com'n. v. Tice · 439 So. 2d 148 - Ball v. Escambia County Commission

2. ““This means, of course, that the amount of money that it can be paid for overtime work is limited to the overall appropriation for the entire operation of the sheriffs office. In this posture, the sheriff is held to a reasonable exercise of discretion in the amount of overtime work his department will incur, just as he must decide about office expenses, use of gasoline, and the purchase of equipment. “To say that the deputy sheriffs must be paid for all of the overtime that they are directed by the sheriff to work would be to approve an open-ended appropriation for this purpose. We do not perceive such an interpretation to be the law. * * “We conclude, therefore, that the legislature has conferred the authority on the Randolph County Commission to appropriate an overall amount of money for the operation of the sheriffs office. Such appropriation will include mandated sums as well as discretionary sums. Such appropriation should include a sum of money for the payment of overtime work by deputy sheriffs just as it provides for the payment of gasoline, oil, office expenses, equipment purchases, etc. The failure to include a special appropriation for the payment of overtime work cannot prevent the payment of such work. The only limitation will be the overall appropriation to the sheriffs office.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 439 So. 2d 148 - Ball v. Escambia County Commission

3. “in the sense that a deputy sheriff may now be compensated for overtime work; whereas before he or she could not be so compensated.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 578 So. 2d 1070 - Geneva County Com'n. v. Tice