Stembel v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 1966
8 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 Johnson v. Board of Commissioners · Mead v. Burk · Goodrich v. Stangland · Strosser v. City of Fort Wayne · Schneck v. City of Jeffersonville
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““3. This appeal must fail for another reason. At the legislative session of 1903, a curative act was passed in these words: ‘An act to legalize the incorporation, laws and official acts of its officers, ordinances, resolutions, minutes and proceedings of the several town boards of the town of Oxford, Benton county, Indiana, and declaring an emergency. Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, that all steps taken and all acts done in and about the incorporation of the town of Oxford, in Benton county, Indiana, be and the same are hereby legalized and declared to be legal and valid, and all elections of officers of said town and all official acts, ordinances, resolutions, minutes and proceedings of the several boards of trustees of said town are hereby declared to be legal and valid. Section 2. Whereas an emergency exists for the immediate taking effect of this act, therefore the same shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage.’ Acts 1903, p. 333. The steps taken and acts done in and about the incorporation of the town of Oxford were not jurisdictional infirmities, but were matters of detail that might have been dispensed with by the legislature by a former statute, and are within the ratification and curative powers of the lawmaking body. Strosser v. City of Ft. Wayne, 100 Ind. 443, 454 ; Johnson v. Board, etc., 107 Ind. 15 ; Schneck v. City of Jeffersonville, 152 Ind. 204 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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