Warfield v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1331 · 28 U.S.C. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 292 · 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle · Parratt v. Taylor
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a motion for summary judgment is made and supported as provided in this rule, an adverse party may not rest upon the mere allegations or denials of his pleading, but his response, by affidavits or as otherwise provided in this rule, must set forth specific facts showing that there is a genuine issue for trial. If he does not so respond, summary judgment, if appropriate, shall be entered against him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“personnel actions of a magnitude less than termination does not rise to a level worthy of consideration under the due process provisions of the Constitution of the United States.” Warfield v. Adams, 582 F.Supp. 111, 114 (S.D.Ind.1984); see also Wargat v. Long, 590 F.Supp. 1213, 1215 (D.Conn.1984) (following Warfield). 3 . Some courts have also expressed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he Constitution must not be trivialized by being dragged into every personnel dispute in state and local government. Disputes over overtime, over work assignments, over lunch and coffee breaks do not implicate the great objects of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.