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← 607 FSUPP 687 - Abick v. Michigan

Abick v. Michigan’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
October 1986
most recently cited

2 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Relies on Board of Regents of State Colleges v. Roth · Edelman v. Jordan · Bell v. Hood · Alabama v. Pugh · Supreme Court of Virginia v. Consumers Union of the United States, Inc.

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

  1. “[u]nder the rules of the supreme court, any other person may serve any process or order of the district court which does not require the seizure, attachment or garnishment of property or the arrest of a person.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[c]ivil process in the district court shall be served by a sheriff, deputy sheriff or a court officer appointed by the judges of the court for such purpose.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[a]ll process issued by the district court in civil actions shall be rotated among the bailiffs pursuant to rules adopted by the court.”
    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.