People v. Barber

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that cases from other jurisdictions addressing this issue “shared the common conclusion that taxable costs must bear some direct relation to actual costs incurred in prosecution”
• explaining that the assessment under the statute “bears no reasonably direct relation to actual costs incurred in the prosecution of a criminal defendant and therefore cannot be considered by the reasoning of any authority to represent ‘costs’ incurred”
• explaining legislature could not circumvent the explicit provision of the constitution by placing the label “costs” on items that were clearly not costs of court
• explaining legislature could not circumvent the explicit provision of the constitution by placing the label “costs” on items that were clearly not costs of court
• discussing another case that “again founded its decision on the conclusion that the prescribed assessment could not be considered incident to the actual prosecution of criminal charges”
• to be deemed a cost money must bear “some direct relation” to expense of prosecution

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Citizens for Pretrial Justice v. Goldfarb
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1982-12-20· cited 30×
• People v. Serra
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1974-09-17· cited 24×
• Board of Library Commissioners v. Judges of the 70th District Court
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1982-07-21· cited 23×
• Orlando Salinas v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-03-06· cited 22×
• Citizens for Pre-Trial Justice v. Goldfarb
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1979-02-20· cited 15×
• Curry v. City of Detroit
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1973-03-22· cited 12×
• People v. Blachura
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1978-02-22· cited 6×
• Michigan Sheriffs' Ass'n v. Department of Treasury
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1977-05-04· cited 6×
• Director, Bureau of Workers’ Disability Compensation v. Bmc Manufacturing, Inc
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1993-07-06· cited 2×
• Orlando Salinas v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2013-12-05
• Opinion No. (1981)
  Nebraska Attorney General Reports· 1981-02-10
• Opinion No. (1980)
  Nebraska Attorney General Reports· 1980-03-10
• People of Michigan v. Travis Michael Johnson
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2021-04-08
• People of Michigan v. Sonya Javah Moore
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2025-07-18

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People ex rel. Drake v. Mahaney
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1865-10-28· cited 427×
• People v. Teasdale
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1952-10-06· cited 28×
• Ex Parte Coffelt
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1951-02-21· cited 27×
• Carter v. City of Norfolk
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1966-03-07· cited 13×
• Ex Parte Miller
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1953-11-18· cited 8×