Bauer v. Peters’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “. . . We concluded there that, unless otherwise provided by statute, Second Class A cities are governed only by such laws regulating cities of the Second Class as were in effect on March 9, 1927, the date when the legislation created the classification of cities of the Second Class A. [Citations omitted]. We further held that, because no employee reduction statute applied to Second Class cities at the time when Second Class A cities were provided for, and because no similar statute has since been promulgated for Second Class A cities, the City of Scranton was legally powerless to dismiss the 11 fulltime policemen there concerned according to the provisions applicable in cities of the Second Class where reductions in force are re quired for economic reasons. Bauer, supra, at 196-97, 246 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Langan v. City of Scranton