Randall v. Hankins’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
August 2016
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Kerr v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California · State Ex Rel. Chapdelaine v. Torrence · Randall v. Hankins
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unlike the statutes in several other jurisdictions ..., the Tennessee statute does not automatically require reinstatement in the first position for which former personnel have the necessary professional qualifications. The second part of the statute clearly provides that the Board of Education has authority to determine the fitness of the teacher for reemployment upon the basis of an evaluation by the Board itself of the teacher’s competence, compatibility and suitability to discharge properly the duties in the vacant position, taking into consideration the best interests of the students in the school where the vacancy exists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Once a tenured person establishes by certification his or her professional qualifications for the open position and shows any other training or experience he or she may have, then that person is entitled to preferential consideration. If the Board is not to employ such a tenured person, it must demonstrate lack of individual fitness and state the reasons why, in its discretion, it did not honor the priority accorded to such personnel by statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“must consider the competence, compatibility and suitability of the applicant for the vacant position in the particular school, the Board must find the individual applicant not “fit” or suited to that position. If the applicant is so suited, then he or she is entitled to priority over other persons who might be more qualified, if they do not also have tenure in the system.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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