People v. Clements

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a debtor whose property was seized by a sheriff executing an invalid writ of attachment was not “compelled to submit to such trespass without reasonable resistance” in order to avoid violating 1882 How Stat 9257, a predecessor of MCL 750.479
• recognizing the right to reasonably resist an attempted illegal seizure of property by the sheriff and noting that “[n]o officer can be legally authorized to invade private rights in any such manner”
• recognizing the right to reasonably resist an attempted illegal seizure of property by the sheriff and noting that “[n]o officer can be legally authorized to invade private rights in any such manner”
• interpreting 1882 How Stat 9257
• interpreting 1882 How Stat 9257

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• People v. Moreno
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2012-04-20· cited 150×
• People v. Krum
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1965-01-05· cited 78×
• People v. Dillard
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1982-04-23· cited 11×
• People v. Smith
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1902-06-03· cited 4×
• Boyle v. Walsh
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1895-05-21· cited 2×
• People v. Barnard
  E.D. Michigan· 1965-03-16· cited 1×
• People of Michigan v. Neil Andrew Trapp
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2020-12-17
• People of Michigan v. Kenneth Michael Nordstrom
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 2026-05-26