Palmer v. Fox’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently March 1987 · most notably 18 Cal. 3d 582 - Associated Home Builders of Greater Eastbay, Inc. v. City of Livermore (1976), Bruce v. Gregory (1967)
5 federal appellate · 42 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 13 Cal. 2d 75 - Drummey v. State Board of Funeral Directors & Embalmers · Inglin v. Hoppin · American Distilling Co. v. City Council of Sausalito · Consolidated Printing & Publishing Co. v. Allen · 60 Cal. App. 680 - Browning v. Dow
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . [M]andamus is never granted to compel performance of an act until there has been an actual, as distinguished from an anticipated, refusal.””
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.