Harmon v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 1970
22 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 City of Atlanta v. Blackman Health Resort Inc. · Thomas v. Ragsdale · Phillips v. Head · Adkins v. Bennett · Smith v. Hodgson
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to entitle one to the writ of mandamus, it must appear that he has a clear legal right to have performed the particular act which he seeks to have enforced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goldberg v. Mulherin“Revenue Tax Act to Legalize and Control Alcoholic Beverages and Liquors”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goldberg v. Mulherin
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.