Thomas v. Jultak’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably 162 Wis. 2d 737 - Voss v. City of Middleton (1991), Cooper v. Town of Pinedale (2000)
35 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 Bacich v. Board of Control · 23 Cal. 2d 381 - Beals v. City of Los Angeles · Athey v. Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railway Co. · Johnson v. Town of Watertown · City of Rock Hill v. Cothran
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The last mentioned section does not provide for any notice to be given to property holders when it is proposed to vacate any street or alley. The vacation of public streets and highways is essentially a legislative function. It is therefore a plenary and absolute power, subject only to constitutional limitations, and it may be delegated to the state’s municipal divisions, Con Realty Co. v. Ellenstein, 125 N.J.L. 196 , 14 A. 2d 544 ; Elliott on Roads and Streets (4th Ed.) Section 1182. We think, accordingly, that so far as jurisdiction is concerned no notice needs to be given to a property holder. 4 McQuillin on Municipal Corporations (Rev.Ed.) page 368; 39 C.J.S., Highways, § 120, p. 1055; Dempsey v. City of Burlington, 66 Iowa 687 , 24 N.W. 508 ; Roberts v. City of Detroit, 241 Mich. 71 , 216 N.W. 410, 412 ; Village of Bellevue v. Bellevue Improvement Co., 65 Neb. 52 , 90 N.W. 1002 ; Baudistel v. Michigan Central R. Co., 113 Mich. 687 , 71 N.W. 1114 . * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'[T]he question arises why an owner of property outside the limits of the city should have the right to control the lawful exercise of the powers of the municipal authorities.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We may incidentally mention that whether or not the alley was vacated by resolution rather than ordinance makes no difference in the absence of a statute to the contrary.”
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.