Cotton v. Paschall’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 693 So. 2d 917 - Mississippi Transp. Com'n v. Fires · 659 So. 2d 578 - Butler v. Board of Sup'rs for Hinds County · Koch & Dryfus v. Bridges · 758 So. 2d 430 - Leslie v. City of Biloxi · 507 So. 2d 41 - BELHAVEN IMP. ASS'N, INC. v. City of Jackson
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court has dealt with the issue and affirmed the dismissal of a suit against an individual employee acting within the scope of her employment, after the dismissal of the employing subdivision ... This Court has been consistent in rejecting the viability of claims against public employees where their political subdivision employer has been eliminated as a defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that an employee acting within the course and scope of her employment is immune from personal liability, but argue[d] that a judgment may be taken against an employee and that judgment must be satisfied by the employing governmental entity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“this Court has been consistent in rejecting the viability of claims against public employees where their political subdivision employer has been eliminated as a defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Conrod v. Holder
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.