State v. Marron’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2007
18 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 The United States at Relation of Aaron Goodrich v. James Guthrie Secretary of the Treasury · State v. McFetridge · State ex rel. First National Bank v. Bartley · People ex rel. National Cigar Co. v. Dulaney · Jennings v. Davis
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The State Treasurer occupies as important a position, and is charged with even greater responsibility than they (the .Governor, Secretary of State and Attorney General) are, in regard to the investment of these funds. His ministerial duty arises out of the law provided by Congress in the Enabling Act for the administration of this fund, and which act requires the fund to be kept invested in safe, interest-bearing securities. The duty is ever present, and is never discharged until the whole field has been explored and exhausted without avail. It is the law of the administration of the trust, not any order or direction of the Governor, Secretary of State and Attorney General, which furnishes the basis for any remedy against the State Treasurer by mandamus. If a given investment, under such circumstances, is safe, there is no discretion left in the State Treasurer under the terms of the rule for the administration of his trust prescribed by the Enabling Act. He must invest the funds in safe, interest-bearing securities, and he may be compelled to do so by mandamus.””
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.