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← 39 Misc. 2d 539 - Donohue v. Cornelius

39 Misc. 2d 539 - Donohue v. Cornelius’s Empirical Analysis

1963

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
August 1980
most recently cited

2 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Relies on Matter of Andresen v. Rice · Matter of Fink v. Finegan · Sloat v. Board of Examiners of the Board of Education · Matter of Barthelmess v. . Cukor · Matter of Cowen v. Reavy

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “An examination cannot be classed as competitive unless it conforms to measures or standards which are sufficiently objective to be capable of being challenged and reviewed, when necessary, by other examiners of equal ability and experience.”
    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.