Kennedy v. Barry’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 state decisions

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

1. “[i]t is reasonable to consider a decision to dismiss an employee to be a tenure decision, because a dismissal obviously terminated the employee’s tenure.” Kennedy v. Barry, 516 A.2d 176, 179 (D.C.1986). Furthermore, we have determined that the”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Davis v. University of the District of Columbia

2. “any person suffering a legal wrong [by] ... an agency in a contested case, is entitled to judicial review ... upon filing in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals a written petition for review.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Davis v. University of the District of Columbia

3. “applies whenever a proceeding involves personnel decisions such as whether a person should be hired, dismissed, or transferred.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Davis v. University of the District of Columbia