State ex rel. Smith v. Etheridge’s Empirical Analysis

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18 state decisions

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

1. “Furthermore, R.C. 3319.02(D) expressly states that '[n]othing in this section shall prevent a board of education from making the final determination regarding the renewal of or failure to renew the contract of any assistant superintendent, principal, assistant principal, or other administrator.' This manifestly indicates that noncompliance with any or all of the R.C. 3319.02(D) evaluation procedures does not invalidate a board's action not to renew an administrative contract. * * *.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State ex rel. Cassels v. Dayton City School District Board of Education · State ex rel. Martines v. Cleveland City School Dist. Bd. of Edn.

2. ““An assistant superintendent, principal, assistant principal, or other administrator is, at the expiration of his current term of employment, deemed reemployed at the same salary plus any increments that may be authorized by the board of education, unless he notifies the board in writing to the contrary on or before the first day in June, or unless such board, on or before the last day of March of the year in which his contract of employment expires, either reemploys him for a succeeding term or gives him written notice of its intention not to reemploy him.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State ex rel. Cassels v. Dayton City School District Board of Education · State ex rel. Cassels v. Dayton City School Dist. Bd. of Edn.

3. ““While the foregoing statutory language requires the board to consider the administrator’s evaluation, it does not require the board to base its decision on such evaluations. * * * [T]he * * * language indicates that even if a board did not consider an administrator’s evaluation in voting to nonrenew a contract, such a failure does not by itself undermine a board’s decision to nonrenew an administrative contract.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State ex rel. Cassels v. Dayton City School District Board of Education · State ex rel. Cassels v. Dayton City School Dist. Bd. of Edn.