Bichsel v. Carver’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably City of DeSoto v. White (2009), Firemen's & Policemen's Civil Service Commission v. Hamman (1966)
58 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 Brazos River Conservation & Reclamation District v. Costello · City of Sherman v. Arnold · Austin Fire & Police Departments v. City of Austin · City of San Antonio v. Wiley · Red v. Bounds
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The full performance of all conditions established by the civil service laws is an essential prerequisite to the jurisdiction of the removing body over the subject matter of the removal of an officer.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The Chief or Head of the Fire Department or Police Department of the city government shall have the power to suspend indefinitely any officer or employee under his supervision or jurisdiction for the violation of civil service rules, but in every such case the officer making such order of suspension shall, within one hundred and twenty (120) hours thereafter, file a written statement with the Commission, giving the reasons for such suspension, and immediately furnishing copy thereof to the officer or employee affected by such act, said copy to be delivered in person to such suspended officer or employee by said department head. * * * "* * * In any civil service hearing hereunder, the department head is hereby restricted to his official written statement and charges, which shall not be amended, and no act or acts may be complained of by said department head which did not happen or occur within six (6) months immediately preceding the date of suspension by the department head."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent““So here, the wisdom of limiting the Chief to his original written charges and prohibiting amendment thereof is not for the Court to decide. Our question is whether the Legislature has so provided. We think it has. The Legislature may have had in mind the shielding of police and similar employees from harassment which could be accomplished by the filing, dismissal and refiling of charges based upon the same transaction. Such action would result in successive suspensions and thus defeat one of the purposes of the Civil Service Act which is to provide for and protect the rights of persons serving as officers and employees of municipal fire and police departments. City of San Antonio v. Wiley, Tex.Civ.App.1952, 252 S.W.2d 471 , writ ref., n. r. e.”. 321 S.W.2d 286 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.