Alan v. Wayne County’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably Morton v. Board of Com'rs of Ramsey County (1974), Kelly v. Marylanders for Sports Sanity, Inc. (1987)
13 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
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 24 · 15 U.S.C. § 78J (§ 10 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934)
Relies on People ex rel. Stuckart v. Knopf · Nelson v. Hopeman · People v. Stimer · Betz v. Berrien County Building Authority
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.
“Here the county’s full faith and credit is pledged and we hold ‘the Authority is [not] separate from the government and autonomous’ but is acting as an alter ego. This means the county is pledging its full faith and credit not only to pay the rent but also to pay the bonds, neither of which Acts 31 and 94 permit. Id. at 267, 200 N.W.2d 628 . (Emphasis supplied).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“I 60 n.12. Yet the court cites that language out of context. It omits Alan's caution that, in considering these methods, "the question always to be asked of itself by the government is whether it has chosen a method it would choose if it were really desirous of actually informing the greatest number of electors of what their rights are.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The kind of notice required depends on the circumstances of the case and the availability of other means in both a theoretical and economic sense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.