Ahern v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2007 · most notably Theodore Smith v. David Plati the University of Colorado (2001), Denver Ass'n for Retarded Children, Inc. v. School District No. 1 (1975)
33 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 People Ex Rel. Inter-Church Temperance Movement v. Baker · Gabriel v. Board of Regents · People ex rel. Clement v. Spruance · North Poudre Irrigation Co. v. Hinderlider · Hall v. City & County of Denver
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[M]andamus will not lie to enforce duties generally, or to control and regulate a general course of official conduct for a long series of continuous acts to be performed under varying conditions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“mandamus will not ordinarily be granted to compel police officers to enforce the police or criminal laws generally, such as laws regulating intoxicating liquors.”
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.