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← 199 WVA 533 - State ex rel. Aaron v. King

State ex rel. Aaron v. King’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 2000
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on United States v. Tucker · Townsend v. Burke · Roche v. Evaporated Milk Ass'n · Roberts v. United States · Tompkins v. Texas

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A writ of mandamus will not issue unless three elements coexist — (1) a clear legal right in the petitioner to the relief sought; (2) a legal duty on the part of respondent to do the thing which the petitioner seeks to compel; and (3) the absence of another adequate remedy.”
    2 later decisions 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.