Reading v. Maxwell’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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

1. ““Granting that the city manager had the absolute power to make plaintiff’s appointment permanent, it is clear that he did not intend such appointment to be permanent. Temporary appointments do not ripen into permanent appointments. Darling v. Maquire, 70 Misc. 597 , 129 N.Y.S. 385 . “In State v. City of Seattle, 134 Wash. 360 , 235 P. 968, 970 , employees of the city of Seattle made the same contention, that is, that, while they may have been given temporary employment, such employment, by virtue of an amendment of the civil servive regulations, became permanent. The court said: ‘Such construction would evade the very objects of the civil service regulations. If they remained on the employment roll after the -60-day period had expired, they simply remained by sufferance, and to construe them as permanent employees would be to violate the express provisions of the charter and disregard the Civil Service law.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. City of Birmingham v. Lee

2. ““That there is a difference between temporary employment and a position, as used in Ordinance 715 and the rules thereunder, seems clear. In rule 8, supra, temporary employment and a position are treated of in separate paragraphs. A temporary employment can never become permanent or continuous and only a position can be permanently filled from the eligible list.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 39 Pa. D. & C. 636 - Goodman v. Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board