Ellis v. Workman’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2000
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.
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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.
“The writ of mandate will not issue in a case where the plaintiff fails to show that it will subserve or protect some right or interest of his. ... The writ will not lie 'where it is apparent that the relator has no direct interest in the action sought to be coerced, and that no benefit can accrue to him from its performance.'”
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.