Potts v. Davis County’s Empirical Analysis
551 F.3d 1188 · 2009
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2024
4 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))
Relies on Melton v. City of Oklahoma City · Brown v. Brienen · Archuleta v. Colorado Department of Institutions · Baca v. Sklar · Hennigh v. City of Shawnee
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“disputes over overtime, over work assignments, over lunch and coffee breaks do not implicate the great objects of the Fourteenth Amendment”). If employees had protected property interests in eveiy nuance and detail of their particular positions, employers would lose their ability to transfer employees between positions — otherwise equal in pay and grade — without risking a lawsuit. Our conclusion is supported by the text of the Utah statute, which permits the Sheriff’s Department to transfer officers from”
1 later decision 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.