Howard v. County School Board’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 1989
16 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 Kellam v. School Board · Harrison v. Day · De Febio v. County School Board of Fairfax County · National Ass'n v. Harrison · Commonwealth v. School Board
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“indispensable and essential function” of a school board in its exercise of the power of supervision granted to it by Section 7 of the Constitution. Indeed, the right and power to remove, as well as to hire, its superintendent, is one of the more essential powers a school board exercises. It is he who carries out school board policies and who tends to the operation of the school system on a day-to-day basis. There can be no removal of a superintendent by a school board, however, unless and until he has been afforded a due process hearing after reasonable notice to him of the time and place of the hearing and the specific grounds relied upon for his removal. "22-40. Puniihment of Division Superintendents. The State Board shall punish division superintendents of schools for neglect of duty, or for any official misconduct, by reasonable fines, to be deducted from their pay, by suspension from office for a limited period, or by removal from office.” "Section 7. School Boards. The supervision of schools in each school division shall be vested in a school board, to be composed of members selected in the manner, for the term, possessing the qualiffictions, and to the number provided by law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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