Whaley v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably Kelly v. Zamarello (1971), Concerned Citizens of South Kenai Peninsula v. Kenai Peninsula Borough (1974)
39 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 Power Reactor Development Co. v. International Union of Electrical, Radio & MacHine Workers · Federal Housing Administration v. Darlington, Inc. · United States v. Atlantic Refining Co. · Gynn v. Gynn · Piedmont Canteen Service, Inc. v. Johnson
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rules that we have referred to are interpretive of the law in that they result in a construction of the words ‘employee in the classified service,’ within the meaning of the statute, as referring only to employees who have attained a permanent status in their employment with the state, and not to probationary or provisional employees. * * * Such interpretive rules were made pursuant to statutory authority. * * * We have no basis for not upholding such an administrative interpretation of AS 39.25.170 particularly in view of the well settled rule that requires courts to give consideration and respect to the contemporaneous construction of a statute by those charged with its administration, and not to overrule such construction except for weighty reasons.” [footnote omitted.] 19”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he well settled rule [ ] requires courts to give consideration and respect to the contemporaneous construction of a statute by those charged with its administration, and not to overrule such construction except for weighty reasons.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An employee in the classified service who is dismissed, demoted, or suspended for more than 30 working days in a 12-month period shall be notified in writing by his employer of the action and the reason for it and may be heard publicly by the personnel board and may be represented by counsel at the hearing. In order to be heard, the complainant shall request a hearing within 15 days of dismissal, demotion or suspension.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Titus v. State
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.