City of Detroit v. State’s Empirical Analysis
803 F.2d 1411 · 1986
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 2012
4 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 33 U.S.C. § 1251 (Alternative Water Sources Act of 2000) · 33 U.S.C. § 1284 · 33 U.S.C. § 1311
Relies on New Orleans Gas Light Co. v. Drainage Commission of New Orleans · 104 Wash. 2d 227 - Teter v. Clark County · County of Oakland v. City of Berkley · Gericke v. Philadelphia · City of Maryville v. Cushman
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This act, being necessary for and to secure the public health, safety, convenience and welfare of the counties, cities, incorporated villages, townships, school districts, port districts, and metropolitan districts of the state of Michigan, shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes hereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is essentially a matter of semantics more than of substance, given the state statutory scheme. [ Id. at 1421.] [12] See Sarasota Co. v. Sarasota Church of Christ, Inc., 667 So.2d 180, 186 (Fla., 1995) (”
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.