Schieffelin v. Hylan’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 2011
4 state decisions
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 Merrill v. Town of Monticello · Pond v. Negus · Wells v. . Town of Salina · Brady v. Mayor of Brooklyn · Staples v. City of Bridgeport
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a municipality, or one of its boards or departments, has lawfully adopted a policy, or has resolved to proceed in a certain way, and that policy or action has been carried out, it cannot be rescinded or changed, though a different policy or action might originally have been equally valid. The policy having been determined, and the action taken and carried out under authority of law, the power to change or rescind does not exist.”
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.