O'Connell v. Bruce’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2016
8 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 Helvering v. Gowran · Kaya v. Partington · St. Germain v. City of Pawtucket · State v. Nordstrom · Chester v. aRUSSO
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Generally, whether what is done by a municipal legislative body is an ordinance or a resolution depends not on what the action is called but on the reality. * * * [W]here a resolution is in substance■ and; effect-,an .ordinance or permanent, regulation, the name given to it is immaterial.1 ] If it is passed with all the formalities of an ordinance it thereby becomes a legislative act, and it is not important whether it be called ordinance or- resolution.1 McQuillin, § 15:2 - at 110. ' , .”
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.