Heaps v. Cobb’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
2 district · 281 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 283 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Bulluck v. Pelham Wood Apartments (1978), Maryland Aviation Administration v. Noland (2005)
2 district · 281 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 Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · Chicago Junction Case · Hecht v. Crook · Harrison v. Central Construction Co. · 20 Cal. 2d 879 - Walker v. City of San Gabriel
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 283 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ourts have the inherent power, through the writ of mandamus, by injunction, or otherwise, to correct abuses of discretion and arbitrary, illegal, capricious or unreasonable acts; but in exercising that power care must be taken not to interfere with the legislative prerogative or with the exercise of sound administrative discretion, where discretion is clearly conferred”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““While the adjudicated cases in which this principle has been applied are mostly those under workmen’s compensation statutes, dealing with accidental injuries ‘arising out of, and in the course of, employment,’ the analogy between them and the pension cases like the one at bar is so close on the point at issue that we find no legal distinction in applying the principle. The test in both classes of cases is whether the transportation was furnished by the employer as an incident of the employment, and the nature of the mission on which the employee was engaged.” Id. at 383 , 45 A.2d 73 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"To refuse to consider evidence introduced or to make an essential finding without supporting evidence is arbitrary action."”
3 later decisions 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.