McMahan v. Yeilding’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. ““A decision rendered by an officer or a board of state or municipal officers, or a commission, when acting judicially, or quasi-judicially, and within his or its jurisdiction, and having by law the force and effect of a judgment, is a bar to further actions on the same matter between the parties or their privies, but if such an officer or board does not act judicially in the particular matter, but ministerially or administratively, ... it is no bar to further proceedings in the same matter, and the power of an administrative body or an agency to reconsider its own findings or orders has no relation to, and is not affected by, the doctrine of res judicata. The test [is] ... whether the particular decision was judicial in its nature and effect, and not the mechanics of the proceeding.” (Emphasis supplied.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 474 So. 2d 1155 - Carden v. Personnel Board

2. “Title 62, § 330(22), Code of Alabama of 1940 (General Acts of Alabama 1945, p. 377) vests the Personnel Board of Jefferson County with the authority to `make rules and regulations,' etc., governing all civil service employees.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 420 So. 2d 6 - City of Bessemer v. PERSONNEL BD. ETC.