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← 459 Mich. 526 - Straus v. Governor

Straus v. Governor’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

14
cited by 14 later decisions
2
states following
February 2021
most recently cited

14 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2021

14 state decisions

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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.

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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The party challenging the facial constitutionality of an act must establish that no set of circumstances exists under which the [a]ct would be valid.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “`[B]ecause a court at all times is required to question sua sponte its own jurisdiction,'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “into three branches: legislative, executive and judicial.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.