Bray v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on People ex rel. Shumway v. Bennett · Commerce-Guardian Trust & Savings Bank v. State · Attorney General ex rel. Hudson v. Common Council · Oakman v. Board of Supervisors · Elliott v. City of Detroit
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For some reason, however, the legislature in 1919 amended section 5 to read as above set forth. The change made might have some application where a consolidation or change of boundaries is desired, as was the case in Oakman v. Board of Sup’rs of Wayne Co., 185 Mich. 359 , but the necessity of securing the assent of any but those who are electors in the territory to be incorporated where such incorporation is sought is not apparent.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The territory taken into the village when incorporated is in no way separated from the township. It still remains a part thereof, is subject to taxation therein, and its residents are electors thereof. ’ ’”
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.