Kittredge v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 1983 · most notably Barten v. Turkey Creek Watershed Joint District No. 32 (1968), Felten Truck Line, Inc. v. State Board of Tax Appeals (1958)
44 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 Smith v. Truman Reeves · Farmers Loan & Trust Co. v. Minnesota · Pennoyer v. McConnaughy · Blackstone v. Miller · First Nat Bank of Boston v. State of Maine
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. It is first contended that mandamus is not the proper remedy — that plaintiff has a plain and adequate remedy at law. In this jurisdiction where the desideratum of the litigation is merely to obtain an authoritative determination of some purely legal question for the guidance of public officers mandamus has become the familiar vehicle to accomplish that objective. In State, ex rel., v. State Highway Comm., 132 Kan. 327, 334 , 295 Pac. 986 , it was said: “ ‘The use of mandamus to secure a speedy adjudication of questions of law for the guidance of state officers and official boards in the discharge of their duties is common in this state. (R. S. 60-1701, 60-1702.) Our conceptions of the proper use of mandamus to expedite the official business of tlie state have expanded far beyond the ancient limitations of matters justiciable in mandamus. (Citations.)’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . under our practice, the plaintiff would probably have to go to the legislature for relief.” (p. 695.)”
1 later decision 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.