Bates v. Gregory’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 1982 · most notably 32 Cal. 3d 779 - Fullerton Joint Union High School District v. State Board of Education (1982), People v. California Fish Co. (1913)
31 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 Von Hoffman v. City of Quincy · Edwards v. Kearzey · Mobile v. Watson · Wolff v. New Orleans · Amy v. City of Watertown
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The city of Mobile, under its corporate name, ‘The Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of Mobile,’ had issued certain bonds in 1859. In 1879 the legislature passed two acts, — one entitled ‘An act to vacate and annul the charter and dissolve the corporation of the city of Mobile, and to provide for the application of the assets thereof in discharge of the debts of said corporation,’ and another entitled ‘An act to incorporate the port of Mobile, and to provide for the government ‘thereof.’ The territory embraced in the port of Mobile was about one-half that which was formerly embraced in the city of Mobile, but Included the larger portion of the inhabitants and taxable property of the former corporation. In an action brought against the port of Mobile to recover upon the bonds that had been issued by the former municipality, the court held that iho port of Mobile was the legal successor of the city of Mobile, and liable for its debts, saying: ‘Where the legislature of a state has given a. local community, living within designated boundaries, a municipal organization, and by a subsequent act or series of acts repeals its charter and dissolves the corporation, and incorporates substantially the same people! as a municipal body under a new name, for the same general purpose, and the groat mass of the taxable properly of the old corporation Is included within tiie limits of the new, anti ¡lie property of the oltl corporation used for public purposes is transferred wi”
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.