Morton v. Broderick’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 19 Cal. 2d 755 - DeGarmo v. Goldman (1942), In Re Pfahler (1906)
47 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 Sharon v. Sharon · McBean v. City of Fresno · Packard v. Richardson · Hamlin v. Kassafer · 23 N.J. Eq. 216 - Johnston v. Jones
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen the writ [of mandate] is invoked to enforce a specific duty, and remedies at law are not adequate, aid will not be refused merely because occupancy or incumbency or title is incidentally involved. It will act under such circumstances as does equity, and inquire into and determine rights so far as, but no further than, may be necessary to the granting of the relief sought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An Act to require Ordinances and Resolutions passed by the City Council or other legislative body of any municipality to be presented to the Mayor, or other chief executive officer of such municipality, for his approval.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Whether, then, the judgment in such a case be considered a self executing judgment or not, the appeal is equally self executing and restores the officer to his rights of office until its final determination.”
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.