Wagner v. Haslam’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Salerno · Federal Communications Commission v. Beach Communications, Inc. · Marshall v. United States · Southern Constructors, Inc. v. Loudon County Board of Education · Brotherton v. Cleveland
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[0]ne can conceive of performance metrics that would be truly irrational, such as basing a Tennessee teacher’s evaluation on the test scores of students in Arizona, whether the Nashville Sounds baseball team had a winning season that school year, or the State of Tennessee’s economy on evaluation day. It is inconceivable that a Tennessee teacher’s ‘value added’ to a student’s performance would bear any relationship to those metrics.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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