Calloway v. Harley’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 1978
9 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 Rolfe v. Spybuck Drainage District No. 1 · Automatic Weighing Co. v. Carter · Garland Power & Development Co. v. State Board of Railroad · Collins v. Hawkins · Maxey v. Coffin
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘As a general rule the party applying for a writ of mandamus must show a specific legal right to its issuance, and also the absence of any other legal remedy. For it is a well settled principle that mandamus will not be allowed to take the place of, or usurp the functions of, an appeal. Automatic Weighing Co. v. Carter, 95 Ark. 118 .’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chavis v. Golden
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.