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7 canonical passages across 7 cases, quoted by 31 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from Cooper v. Williamson County Board of Education.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cooper v. Williamson County Board of Education Anchor | green | “to protect school teachers from arbitrary demotions and dismissals.” | 8 |
| 2 | McClellan v. Board of Regents of the State University | green | “one appearing before an administrative tribunal must make timely objections to procedural errors and must raise the errors at the administrative level in order to preserve them for consideration in a petition for judicial review.” | 5 |
| 3 | Ryan v. Anderson | green | “a measure of job security to those educators who have attained tenure status” | 5 |
| 4 | Scheele v. Hartford Underwriters Insurance Co. | green | “statutory provisions relating to the mode or time of doing an act to which the statute applies are ordinarily held to be directory rather than mandatory.” | 4 |
| 5 | In Re Babineaux | green | “the lack of stated consequences for noncompliance leads to a directory construction” | 3 |
| 6 | Welch v. Board of Professional Responsibility for the Supreme Court of Tennessee | green | “applies equally to proceedings before the hearing committee as it does to proceedings in a trial court” | 3 |
| 7 | Rhea v. Marko Construction Co. | green | “it has long been the rule that this court will not address questions not raised in the trial court.” | 3 |
A red or yellow flag on a member means the underlying case has negative treatment: for those, check the case page before relying on the passage.