Willoughby v. Grim’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Krier v. Dell Rapids Twp. (2006), Krsnak v. South Dakota Department of Environment & Natural Resources (2012)
29 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 Cooter & Gell v. Hartmarx Corp. · Koon v. United States · 1 Cal. App. 4th 495 - Rodriguez v. Solis · 86 Ill. 2d 179 - Chicago Ass'n of Commerce & Industry v. Regional Transportation Authority · 57 Ill. App. 3d 991 - People Ex Rel. Carson v. Mateyka
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]o compel the performance of an act which the law specially enjoins as a duty resulting from an office, trust, or station; or to compel the admission of a party to the use and enjoyment of a right or office to which he is entitled, and from which he is unlawfully precluded by such inferior tribunal, corporation, board, or person.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The nature of a writ of mandamus is an extraordinary remedy that will' issue only when the duty to act is clear: Mandamus is a potent, but precise remedy. Its power lies in its expediency; its precision in its narrow application. It commands the fulfillment of an existing legal duty, but creates no duty itself, and acts upon no doubtful or unsettled right. To prevail in seeking a Writ of Mandamus, the petitioner must have a clear legal right to performance of the specific duty sought to be compelled and the respondent must have a definite legal obligation to perform that duty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he words "shall" and "all" in SDCL 31-13-1, indicate the Legislature intended to create a compulsory obligation to repair and maintain all township roads. "[T]he term, shall, manifests a mandatory directive and does not confer any discretion in carrying out the action so directed." Therefore, the duty to maintain township roads is ministerial and [a] proper subject for mandamus when a township fails or refuses to act according to statute. (citations omitted).”
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.