Bargman v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2018
20 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 Jones v. Keogh · Willard v. Pike · Reynolds v. Sullivan · Corcoran v. Village of Bennington · Gerard Couture v. Selectmen of Berkshire
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a simple and definite duty, imposed by law, and arising under conditions admitted or proved to exist”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“since plaintiffs have alleged facts which, if true, would permit an order in the nature of mandamus, they must be given an opportunity at least to introduce evidence in support of those allegations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“has a clear, legal right to the performance of the particular duty at the hands of the [official], and that the law affords no other adequate remedy.”
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.