20 Ala. App. 567 - Ex Parte Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2003
16 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 Wilson v. Duncan · Dunbar v. Frazer · Ex parte Woodruff · Ex parte Scudder-Gale Grocery Co. · Ex parte Jones
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.
““Mandamus is an extraordinary remedy. This extraordinary writ issues only to compel action when the matter is presented for decision before an officer, charged in that regard, and who refuses to hear and determine it; but it never issues to control judicial action or to direct a judicial officer how to act or what conclusion' to reach. Ex parte Jones, 94 Ala. 34 , 10 So. 429 ; Dunbar v. Frazer, 78 Ala. 538 . It never issues from a superior to an inferior court, except when the right is clear and there is no other remedy. Wilson v. Duncan, 114 Ala. 659 , 21 So. 1017 . It never lies to control or direct discretionary powers of lower courts. It is a conservative and not a creative, remedy. Ex parte Scudder-Gale Gro. Co., 120 Ala. 434 , 25 So. 44 ; Ex parte Woodruff, 123 Ala. 100 , 26 So. 509 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“". . . the law does not vest in this court the power to fix the amount, but vests that authority and power in the trial court, and does not vest in this court the authority or power to revise the erroneous action of the trial court by mandamus."”
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.