Cerajewski v. McVey’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 1984 · most notably City of Phoenix v. PHOENIX CIVIC AUD. & CON. CENT. (1965), Department of Public Sanitation v. Solan (1951)
27 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 Voss v. Waterloo Water Co. · Campbell v. City of Indianapolis · Follett v. Sheldon, Treas. · Hively v. School City of Nappanee · State Ex Rel. Anderson v. Brand, Trustee
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In appraising the validity of the statute before us and the proposal to proceed thereunder by appellees, we must consider the purpose of the debt limitation section of the Constitution and must look through the form of the statute to the substance of what it does and we should not countenance subterfuge to evade the intent of our fundamental law. Voss v. Waterloo Water Co. (1904), 163 Ind. 69, 89, 90 , 71 N. E. 208 . State ex rel. Matthews, Governor v. Forsythe (1896), 147 Ind. 466, 472, 473 , 44 N. E. 593.” Cerajewski v. McVey (1947), 225 Ind. 67, 71 , 72 N. E. 2d 650 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The substance of the result is that the School City obtains, controls and operates its new Technical-Vocational High School exactly as though no new governmental unit had been created and as though it had been able to borrow! and had itself borrowed, the money and issued its own bonds.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Corporations, other than banking, shall not be created by special Act, but may be formed under general laws.””
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.