403 So. 2d 135 - Cox v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2014
8 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 359 So. 2d 350 - Lamar Cty. Sch. Bd. of Lamar Cty. v. Saul · 360 So. 2d 1236 - CALHOUN CTY. BD. OF ED. v. Hamblin · 349 So. 2d 550 - Jackson v. Bd. of Ed. of Oktibbeha County · 351 So. 2d 531 - McDonald v. East Jasper Cty. Sch. Dist.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The preamble to the present law states the intent of the Legislature is to establish `procedures for providing public school employees with notice of the reasons' for not offering a renewal contract, provide an opportunity for the employee to present matters in extenuation or exculpation to enable the school board to determine whether the recommendation of non-employment is a proper employment decision and not contrary to law, and `not to establish a system of tenure or require that all decisions of nonreemployment be based upon cause with respect to employment in the school district.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Id. at 137 . Justice Hawkins, writing for the Court in Cox , noted the basic fundamental purpose of the School Employment Procedures Act of 1977 which substantially amended the 1974 Miss. Laws Ch. 577”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“substantial and manifestly good faith attempt by the superintendent and the school board to comply with the law.”
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.