Hebbler v. New Orleans Fire Department’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 477 So. 2d 1094 - Sibley v. Bd. of Sup'rs of Louisiana State University (1985), 446 So. 2d 1357 - Bunch v. Town of St. Francisville (1984)
34 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 Hava v. Cafiero · Succession of McRacken · State v. Murray · Jenkins v. Orleans Parish School Board · Hebbler v. New Orleans Fire Department
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Employees in the state or city civil service, who have been illegally discharged from their employment, as found by the appellate courts, shall be entitled to be paid by the employing agency on all salaries and wages withheld during the period of illegal separation, against which amount shall be credited and set-off all wages and salaries earned by the employee in private employment in the period of separation."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Hence, we conclude that the legislative intent was to make the reinstated employee whole. Since the state supplemental pay is part of Hebbler’s salaries and wages withheld during the period of illegal separation and was lost directly as a result of his illegal discharge^] ... he is entitled to be reimbursed for same by his employing agency. This is in accordance with the explicit mandate of R.S. 49:113. However, we are not passing upon the right, if any, of the [employer] to seek reimbursement from the state for the payment of the state supplemental pay herein ordered to be paid....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““. . . shall be included in the calculation and computation of the total wages paid to the employee in the determination of employer contributions to any retirement system or pension fund of which such employee may be a member as well as in the determination of retirement eligibility and benefits which may accrue to the employee under any retirement system or pension fund, as well as in the determination of any other employee benefits, sick leave, or disability pay to which the employee might be entitled.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.