341 So. 2d 55 - McGowen v. Prentice’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2014
10 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 Madison v. Bolton · 316 So. 2d 517 - Carter v. Catfish Cabin · 245 So. 2d 430 - Brown v. News-World Publishing Corp. · Lykes Bros. Steamship Co. v. Doyal · 298 So. 2d 901 - Moresi v. Teche Publishing Company, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
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“The major thrust of plaintiff's evidence is that Prentice was wrong in recommending against her re-hiring, but that question is for the school board and the school officials, not for the courts. Therefore, we conclude, as did the trial court, that the defendant did not defame the plaintiff in recommending that she not be rehired.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"This is in response to your letter of April 23, 1974 regarding JoAnn P. McGowen. In view of the circustances and facts relating to this teacher, I reluctantly but firmly recommend that, in the interest of Jeanerette High School, she not be rehired for the 1974-1975 school year."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Id. at 55 . The letter Prentice sent to George Crowson, the assistant superintendent of the Iberia Parish school system read in its entirety:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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