Thompson v. Mayfield’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2015
1 federal appellate · 9 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 BERRY, MAYOR, ETC. v. Embrey · Board of Supervisors v. Mississippi State Highway Commission · Powell v. State Tax Commission
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(I)t is not the prerogative of this court to adjudicate the advisability of an election by the City of Laurel in this case where, by statute, there is no legal duty imposed on the city to hold such an election. Writs of mandamus should never issue unless there is a legal duty to do the thing which the petitioner -seeks- to compel and since, in this case, it cannot be said that the city is especially enjoined by statute to hold an election, since it is specifically exempted by virtue of its adoption of these resolutions, there is no alternative except to sustain the demurrer and the first and fourth defenses pleaded by the City of Laurel in its answer.”
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.