McClellan, Mayor v. Stuckey’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2022
13 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 Bishop v. Greek · Waldrop v. Kansas City Southern Railway Co. · Bush v. Echols
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Two resolutions of the city council were passed, one on October 14, acting upon the petition of ten or more residents, in which enumerators were appointed to take a census, and the other was passed on November 26, 1935, as the result of which the town was advanced to a city of the second class. Section 9559 of Pope’s Digest provides that all by-laws, or ordinances, of a general or permanent nature and those imposing any fine, penalty or forfeiture shall be published in some newspaper of general circulation in the corporation . . . The trial court held that the resolutions above mentioned, of October 14 and November 26, were within the purview of that section of the Digest and should have been published. "We think the court was correct in so holding. It is immaterial that these enactments of the city council were designated as resolutions. The effect was to provide for a new and different form of government for the municipality which did affect all of the people thereof, and there could have been no good reason why they should not be published, unless to keep the people in ignorance of what the mayor and council were undertaking to do.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adams v. Sims
How this case has been treated — in progress
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