Laughlin v. Reynolds’s Empirical Analysis
196 F.2d 863 · 1952
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1980
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Massachusetts v. Mellon · State of Louisiana v. William Gibbs McAdoo · United States ex rel. McLennan v. Wilbur · United States Girard Trust Co v. Helvering · Ex parte Cutting
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Because of the extraordinary nature of the remedy, the courts will al ways • proceed with great caution before granting relief in the nature of mandamus. The person seeking relief must have a clear right to the performance of the act sought to be commanded. Supervisors v. United States, 1873, 18 Wall. 71, 85 , U.S. 71, 21 L.Ed. 771 ; Ex parte Cutting, 1876, 94 U.S. 14 , 24 L.Ed. 49 ; State of Louisiana v. McAdoo, 1913, 234 U.S. 627 , 34 S.Ct. 938 , 58 L.Ed. 1506 ; United States ex rel. Girard Trust Co. v. Helvering, 1937, 301 U.S. 540 , 57 S.Ct. 855 , 81 L.Ed. 1272 . And the relief will be granted ' * * * only where the duty to be performed is ministerial and the obligation to act peremptory and plainly defined.’ United States ex rel. McLennan v. Wilbur, 1931, 283 U.S. 414, 420 , 51 S.Ct. 502, 504 , 75 L.Ed. 1148 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cross v. Pace
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.