State v. Erickson’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently December 2002 · most notably Vartuli v. Sotire (1984), Connecticut Savings Bank v. First National Bank & Trust Co. (1947)
62 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 State Ex Rel. Foote v. Bartholomew · Cook v. Packard Motor Car Co. · Whitney v. City of New Haven · Council of Glencoe v. People ex rel. Owen · Wheeler v. Bedford
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a public officer proposes to proceed in plain disregard of the rules of law established for his governance, capriciously or arbitrarily, and not in the honest exercise of discretion or judgment, his conduct is tantamount to a refusal to act at all and mandamus lies, not only to compel him to act, but to direct that action along the prescribed way.”
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.