May v. Ala. State Tenure Com'n’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 2012
5 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 Pickens County Board of Education v. Keasler · Williams v. Board of Education of Lamar County · Woods v. Board of Education of Walker County · 451 So. 2d 301 - Miller v. ALABAMA STATE TENURE COM'N
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As we see it, the only pertinent inquiry was whether there was a ‘justifiable decrease in the number of teaching positions’. That being established, the reason for selecting [Williams’s] contract as the one to be cancelled was not open to inquiry. We find nothing in the Tenure Act establishing a criterion for determining what particular tenured teacher’s contract should be cancelled when there is a ‘justifiable decrease in the number of teaching positions.’ In such situation, it seems to us that the right of selection is a matter resting entirely with the employing Board of Education.””
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.