Allison v. Utah County Corp.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• treating two claims, one against a municipality and the other against a municipal official in his official capacity, as one singular claim
• rejecting argument that “leaving a copy of the summons and complaint with … a secretary … who happened to be in the … office when the process server arrived” was sufficient
• service insufficient on a defendant prosecutor where plaintiff left summons and complaint with receptionist; there was no showing that defendant had authorized anyone to accept service on her behalf

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cites

30 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-06· cited 41,449×
• Conley v. Gibson
  Supreme Court· 1957-11-18· cited 30,380×
• Kentucky v. Graham
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-28· cited 11,385×
• City of Canton v. Harris
  Supreme Court· 1989-02-28· cited 10,043×
• Mitchell v. Forsyth
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-19· cited 8,858×
• Imbler v. Pachtman
  Supreme Court· 1976-03-02· cited 7,274×
• Quern v. Jordan
  Supreme Court· 1979-03-05· cited 4,123×
• Hafer v. Melo
  Supreme Court· 1991-11-05· cited 4,063×
• Buckley v. Fitzsimmons
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-24· cited 2,450×
• Forrester v. White
  Supreme Court· 1988-01-12· cited 2,252×
• Burns v. Reed
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-30· cited 1,988×
• Brandon v. Holt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 1,538×
• Kalina v. Fletcher
  Supreme Court· 1997-12-10· cited 1,173×
• Regents of University of California v. Doe
  Supreme Court· 1997-02-19· cited 1,008×
• Ledbetter v. City of Topeka, KS
  Tenth Circuit· 2003-02-06· cited 535×
• Toby J. Espinoza v. United States
  Tenth Circuit· 1995-04-04· cited 368×
• RUIZ v. McDONNELL
  Tenth Circuit· 2002-08-08· cited 244×
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation v. Oaklawn Apartments
  Tenth Circuit· 1992-03-17· cited 230×
• Watson v. City of Kansas City
  Tenth Circuit· 1988-09-14· cited 188×
• Green v. Dorrell
  Tenth Circuit· 1992-07-09· cited 187×

Other cases named Allison v. Utah County Corp.

1 other CourtListener record shares this case name.

• Allison v. Utah County Corp.
  D. Utah· 2004-09-14· cited 1×