Kahn v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably City of Tucson v. Clear Channel Outdoor, Inc. (2008), Phoenix Newspapers, Inc. v. Department of Corrections (1997)
23 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 Massachusetts Board of Retirement v. Murgia · Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Group of Boston, Inc. · Jefferson v. Hackney · New York State Club Association Inc v. City of New York · City of Dallas v. Stanglin
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mandamus may compel the performance of a ministerial duty or compel the officer to act in a matter involving discretion, but it may not designate how that discretion shall be exercised.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`generalized right of social association under the First Amendment'”
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.