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incompetency

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 357 U.S. 399 - Beilan v. Board of Public Education School District of Philadelphia · 1958Most cited · 366 citing opinions

public employment

A relative term without technical meaning

It may be employed as meaning disqualification; inability; incapacity; lack of ability, legal qualifications, or fitness to discharge the required duty,' and includes a teacher's deliberate and insubordinate refusal to answer the questions of his administrative superior in a vitally important matter pertaining to his fitness

How often courts cite the case defining “incompetency”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “incompetency” — 369 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.

All 2 definitions, chronological · 1958–1958

  1. petitioner's 'deliberate and insubordinate refusal to answer the questions of his administrative superior in a vitally important matter pertaining to his fitness.' 386 Pa.