Hammon v. Barry’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2013
2 federal appellate · 12 district ·
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 Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · United Families of America v. Kendrick · Keeble v. United States · CPC International Inc. v. Dimmitt Agri Industries, Inc. · United Families of America v. Kendrick
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“25. A total of $100,000 shall be set aside to compensate individual members of the Hammon class for service rendered in this litigation on their own time. Any member of the Hammon class may submit a claim to the Special Master indicating the hours worked, the service rendered, and the amount claimed. The Special Master shall award an appropriate amount to any such claimant at the rate of $23 per hour. The Hammon plaintiffs may seek to identify special burdens borne by individual plaintiffs during this litigation, and portions of the $100,000 may be allocated as compensation for these burdens. Before any special burdens are compensated, the Special Master must find that they are identifiable and supported by the record, and that efforts have been made to assure that all members who have borne these burdens have been able to make a claim____ 26. The Hammon plaintiffs will propose a schedule of payments and supporting rationales for any payments, ineluding payments for services rendered on an hourly basis, which the Special Master will approve under a reasonableness standard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hammon v. Kelly“During the course of this prolonged litigation, firefighters in the City have been unable to compete for promotion for positions as sergeant, lieutenant, and captain. The inability to compete has been frustrating to members of both the Hammon and Byrne classes and to City and Fire Department officials concerned with the morale of the Department and the safety of the City. Fairness to the Department’s employees, black and white, requires that promotions take place as soon as possible. Prompt promotions will be accomplished by making immediate promotions to fill vacancies which arose prior to March 1, 1989 and by providing two promotional tests within a relatively short period of time to fill subsequent vacancies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In light of the factors supporting the administration of a unitary promotional test at this time and the assurances by all the parties and the Special Master that they are receptive to the Fire Prevention objectors’ concerns and are working diligently to consider alternatives to accommodate the Fire Prevention unit, the Court holds that the objections submitted by members of the Fire Prevention unit are insufficient to preclude this Court from approving the Settlement Agreement as a fair resolution of this litigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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