121 Mich. App. 705 - Bennison v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district · 13 state decisions

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"... while members of a church undoubtedly possess the legal right to withdraw from it, with or with them, for their own purposes, or transfer to any other religious body, property previously without reason, they may not, in so doing, take conveyed, to, or dedicated to the use of, the religious denomination from which they are withdrawing or one of its member churches, but such property must remain for the use and benefit of adherents to that denomination or those who represent it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Amador Parrilla v. Concilio Iglesia Universal de Jesucristo

2. “whenever the questions of discipline or of faith, or ecclesiastical rule, custom or law have been decided by the highest of these church judicatories to which the matter has been carried, the legal tribunals must accept such decisions as final, and as binding on them, in their application to the case before them.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 233 Mich. App. 96 - Smith v. Calvary Christian Church

3. “The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America is a hierarchically structured organization which by virtue of its constitution and canons exercises pervasive control over its constituent parishes....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dixon v. Edwards