Bishop v. Lambert’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 1945
5 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 Tennant v. Crocker · Fournier v. Mayor of West Bay City
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Counsel disagree about the effect of this decision, but we need not pass upon the meaning of the language used in that case, as the provisions of this law differ from that passed upon, in that an exception is made to the requirement of an affirmative vote by a majority of the aldermen elect to carry a resolution. The provision requiring a vote of a majority of the aldermen elect excludes the efficacy of a vote by a majority of a quorum, while the exception obviates the possibility of a tie.” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““No money shall be appropriated except by ordinance or resolution of the council; nor shall any resolution be passed or adopted except by the vote of a majority of all the aldermen elected to office, except as herein otherwise provided.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“‘ ‘ The mayor shall be president of the council, and preside at the meetings thereof, but shall have no vote therein, except in case of a tie, when he shall have the casting vote. ’ ’”
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.