Small v. Cottrell’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2015
4 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 Green Forest Public Schools v. Herrington · Murray v. Altheimer-Sherrill Public Schools · Moffitt v. Batesville School District · Chapman v. Hamburg Public Schools · Leola School District v. McMahan
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) The superintendent of a school district may recommend termination of an employee during the term of any contract or the nonrenewal of a full-time nonprobationary employee’s contract provided that he gives notice in writing, personally delivered, or by letter posted by registered or certified mail to the employee’s residence .... * * * (c) Such written notice shall include a statement of the reasons for the proposed termination or nonrenewal. (d) The notice shall further state that an employee being recommended for termination or .. .for nonrenewal is entitled to a hearing before the school board upon request provided that the request is made in writing to the superintendent within twenty-five (25) calendar days from receipt of the notice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A nonrenewal, termination, suspension, or other disciplinary action by a school district shall be void unless the school district strictly complies with all provisions of this subchapter and the school district’s applicable personnel policies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is clear that the General Assembly promulgated the [Fair Hearing] Act to protect noncertified school employees’ rights to notice and opportunity to be heard by a reasonable hearing procedure when termination or nonrenewal is imminent.”
1 later decision 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.