Ex parte Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
1900
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2003
18 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 Ex parte Roundtree · East & West Railroad Co. of Alabama v. East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad · Wilson v. Duncan · Ex parte Harris · Dunn v. Court of County Revenues
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The universal doctrine is, that `mandamus will not lie, when there is a remedy by appeal or writ of error.'13 Ency. Pl. & Pr., 530, and note 2. This doctrine has prevailed in this State since the decision in the case of The State v. The Judge of the Orphans' Court, 15 Ala. 740 [ (1849) ], down to the present time.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte State
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.