State v. Baynard’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2000
13 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 Fergus v. Russel · Commonwealth v. Barnett · Graham v. Jones · City of Alexandria v. Hall · State Ex Rel. Brenner v. Noe
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In like manner, as we have already stated, section 62 of Art. 7 of the Constitution ordains that assistant district attorneys ‘shall each receive a salary of seven hundred and fifty dollars per an-num, payable by the State * * Again, we say, the Legislature has no other alternative but to make the necessary provision therefor in the general appropriation bill. And if the Legislature can exercise no discretion in the matter and has no other alternative than to carry out the provisions of the Constitution, we cannot understand from what source the Governor could derive the power to use his own discretion and change or annul its action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In the case of State ex rel. Nunez v. Baynard, 15 So.2d 649 , at page 655, the Court of Appeal, First Circuit, cited with approval the case of Cook v. City of Shreveport, 163 La. 518 , 112 So. 402 , which upheld the proposition that mandamus will lie to compel a public officer to perform a plain duty made ministerial by the provisions of a statute, and further stated:”
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.