Owens v. Rush’s Empirical Analysis
654 F.2d 1370 · 1981
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 21 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Meade v. Grubbs (1988), Clark v. Tarrant County (1986)
50 federal appellate · 21 district · 5 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
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Scheuer v. Rhodes · Pickering v. Board of Education of Township High School District 205 Will County Illinois · Perry v. Sindermann
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Congress intended for the personal staff exception to apply only to those individuals who are in highly intimate and sensitive positions of responsibility on the staff of the elected official.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“looked to the nature and circumstances of the employment relationship between the complaining individual and the elected official to see if the exception applie[d],”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Russell Nichols Robert Campbell Jim Walters Hayden Byrd Carl Miller Loyd McBee Blake Dudoit v. Charles Hurley, as Sheriff of Leflore County, Oklahoma the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Leflore, State of Oklahoma, and the Excise Board of Leflore County, Oklahoma, and the Secretary of Labor, Amicus Curiae. Al Cossey Alvin McGee Jim Lawson v. Bobby Gray, Sheriff of McIntosh County, State of Oklahoma Board of County Commissioners of McIntosh County, State of Oklahoma, the Secretary of Labor, Amicus Curiae · Teneyuca v. Bexar County“Considering the nature of the Undersheriff's position and the close working relationship required to perform effectively in the position, we must conclude that plaintiff was in the type of job which Congress intended to be within the personal staff exception of Sec. 2000e(f) and thus outside Title VII coverage.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Russell Nichols Robert Campbell Jim Walters Hayden Byrd Carl Miller Loyd McBee Blake Dudoit v. Charles Hurley, as Sheriff of Leflore County, Oklahoma the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Leflore, State of Oklahoma, and the Excise Board of Leflore County, Oklahoma, and the Secretary of Labor, Amicus Curiae. Al Cossey Alvin McGee Jim Lawson v. Bobby Gray, Sheriff of McIntosh County, State of Oklahoma Board of County Commissioners of McIntosh County, State of Oklahoma, the Secretary of Labor, Amicus Curiae · 88 F. Supp. 2d 1334 - Laurie v. Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals
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.