15 Cal. App. 118 - Gray v. Mullins’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 1944
4 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 v. Walker
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is hardly necessary to repeat what we have many times said, that the writ of mandate is a prerogative writ, and, in order to entitle the petitioner to such writ, it must plainly appear that he is entitled to the relief demanded, and that it is the duty of the inferior board, tribunal, or person to perform the act which it is claimed such tribunal, board, or person refuses to perform.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Doolittle v. Eckert
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.