71 Mich. App. 213 - Piotrowski v. Piotrowski’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
6
states following
July 1979
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the common law a person may adopt any name he or she wishes, without resort to any court and without any legal proceedings, provided it is not done for fraudulent purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. United States v. Cox
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.