Gollin v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis

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5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"With respect to appointments of employees to positions in the competitive class, competitive civil service examinations are ordinarily required by constitutional, statutory, or charter provisions. An examination, to be competitive within the meaning of such a provision, must be given under an objective standard of grading; it must conform to measures or standards which are sufficiently objective to be capable of being challenged and reviewed, when necessary, by other examiners of equal ability and experience. That an examination is denominated competitive does not make it competitive; the examination must be competitive in substance, not merely in form. But the fact that standards for determining whether a candidate has met certain tests cannot be defined or measured with entire objectivity does not render the test at variance with the statutory or constitutional requirements.” (Footnotes omitted.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Eatherly v. Oregon State Correctional Institution