Davidson v. Hine’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 1935
14 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 People ex rel. Drake v. Mahaney · People ex rel. Le Roy v. Hurlbut · People Ex Rel. Metropolitan Street Railway Co. v. State Board of Tax Commissioners · People ex rel. Board of Park Commissioners v. Common Council · City of Detroit v. Blackeby
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It cannot be said that a municipality is responsible for all the negligence of its officers when they are engaged in performing a local governmental duty, and therefore it is not true that exemption from such responsibility proves that they are not performing a local governmental duty. This is settled by our own decisions. The authorities heretofore cited in this opinion prove that officers having charge of the streets of a municipality are performing local governmental duties, and that the State has no right to appoint such officers. And it is also settled that in the absence of a statute establishing a contrary rule, a municipality is not liable for the negligence of such officials.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If this act had been confined to the police department it would have been constitutional under the decision of People v. Mahaney, 13 Mich. 481 . But it is not so confined. It gives to the bureau appointed by the governor full power and control over the fire department of said city, and it is clear that this feature. is an essential part of the act, and, if unconstitutional, the entire act must fall.””
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.