Delphi v. Startzman’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 2007 · most notably Sinclair v. Gunzenhauser (1912), Center School Township v. State ex rel. Board of School Commissioners (1898)
4 federal appellate · 29 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Taylor v. City of Fort Wayne · Strosser v. City of Fort Wayne · State v. Washington Social Library Co. · Robbins v. Magee · Town of Cicero v. Williamson
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our decisions have uniformly declared that in such a case as this [that is, where the territory is not platted] the city must petition the board of county commissioners, and secure an order from that body. * * * This case does not belong to the class over which the common council has jurisdiction. On the cpntrary it belongs to a class over which the board of commissioners has exclusive, original jurisdiction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The question is not simply one of relief from taxation, but the question is as to the right to compulsorily change the property of the citizens from the territorial limits of one political corporation into those of another and different corporation. It is, in fact, a question as to the right to supplant one local government by another.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.