Abt v. Wilcox’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 1993
4 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 Lamoreaux v. Ellis · Smith v. Flint City Commission · Ellis v. Common Council of Grand Rapids · Bostatter v. Hinchman · Smith v. Wagner
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If we concede, as urged by plaintiff’s counsel, that the office of sheriff is a ‘public department’ of the county (Ellis v. Common Council of Grand Rapids, 123 Mich. 567 ), and that a deputy sheriff could not be removed or suspended without cause by the sheriff during his term of office, it does not follow that the appointment does not terminate on the expiration of the term to which the sheriff has been elected. . . . “ ‘Bishop’s authority to hold the office of sheriff expired at midnight of December 31, 1890, by constitutional limitation, and all his deputies and the undersheriff went out of office with him.’ . . . “The bond to be given by the newly-elected sheriff could not be held to protect against the default of a deputy whom he had not appointed.” Abt v. Wilcox, 264 Mich. 183 , 249 N. W. 483 .”
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.