Wyrzykowski v. Budds’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2000
3 federal appellate ·
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 Broadway National Bank v. Adams · Smith v. Towers · Estate of Beck · Brown v. City of Highland Park · Bowler v. Nagel
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That the pension should be exempt from garnishment is of great importance to the city of Hamtramck in making an assured reward for the benefit of deserving pensioners in advanced age inca pacitated from performing their duties. The city has undoubted right to provide against the incapacitated officer being in destitution and to that end that he should have a pension reasonably commensurate with his properly anticipated needs and free from garnishment. The existence of the pension fund is a well recognized incentive to faithful discharge of duties during the period of active service.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Benton · In Re Dunn““the rule of public policy which subjects a debtor’s property to the payment of his debts, does not subject the property of a donor to the debts of his beneficiary, and does not give the creditor a right to complain that, in the exercise of his absolute right to disposition, the donor has not seen fit to give the property to the creditor, but has left it out of his reach.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Benton · In Re Dunn“In essence, the Michigan Supreme Court found that the pension was a spendthrift trust, and furthermore, that it was not self settled. According to the court, “This fund was derived through taxation, collection of fines, emoluments, and five per cent, deductions from the pay of the police officer under section 11 of the city charter.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Benton
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.