Ex parte Rowland’s Empirical Analysis
104 U.S. 604 · 1881
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 7 district · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 238 later decisions (33 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2022 · most notably Ex Parte: Edward T Young (1908), United States v. United Mine Workers of America (1947)
59 federal appellate · 7 district · 65 state decisions — followed in 26 states
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 Ex parte Lange · Ex parte Parks
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 238 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'(t)he general principle which governs proceedings by mandamus is, that whatever can be done without the employment of that extraordinary writ, may not be done with it.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If the command of the peremptory writ of manda mis was in all respects such as the circuit court had jurisdiction to make, the proceedings for the contempt are not reviewable here. But if the command was in whole or in part beyond the power o£ the court, the writ, or so much as was in excess of jurisdiction, was void, and tlie court had no right in law to punish for any contempt o£ its unauthorized requirements. Such is the settled rule of decision in this court.” Ex parte Lange, 18 Wall. 163 ; Ex parte Parks, 93 U. S. 18 ; Ex parte Siebold, 100 U. S. 371 ; Ex parte Virginia, Id. 33 9, Ex parte Wilson, 114 U. S. 417 , 421; S. C. 5 Sup. Ct. Rep. 935 .”
4 later decisions 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.