212 Mich. App. 184 - Hauser v. Reilly’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2013
11 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.
Most-quoted passages
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“We are not an assimilative, homogenous society, but a facilitative pluralistic one, in which we must be willing to abide someone else's unfamiliar or even repellant practice because the same tolerant impulse protects our own idiosyncracies. Even if we agree, therefore, that "family" and "parenthood" are part of the good life, it is absurd to assume that we can agree on the content of those terms and destructive to pretend that we do. In a community such as ours, "liberty" must include the freedom not to conform. The plurality today squashes this freedom by requiring specific approval from history before protecting anything in the name of liberty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Callender v. Skiles“decision of the Supreme Court is binding upon this Court until the Supreme Court overrules itself,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Wood v. Bediako
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