Callahan v. Giles’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
140 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Crofts v. Court of Civil Appeals for the Eighth Supreme Judicial District (1962), Rivercenter Associates v. Rivera (1993)
140 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 Westerman v. Mims · Erp v. Tillman · Weaver v. Robison · Frost v. Wolf · Herndon v. J. T. Robison Commissioner of General Land Office
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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“aids the diligent and not those who slumber on their rights.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Mandamus is an extraordinary writ, and is not issued as a matter of right, but rests largely in the sound discretion of the Court. * * * The writ will not be granted unless the petition shows that the relator has a clear right to the writ. * % % * sjc * “While mandamus is a common law writ and not an equitable remedy, its issuance is largely controlled by equitable principles.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Mandamus is an extraordinary writ, and is not issued as a matter of right, but rests largely in the sound discretion of the court. (Citing cases.) The writ will not be granted unless the petition shows that the relator has a clear right to the writ.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kennann v. Nelson
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.