McCallum v. Bryan’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2013
17 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 United States v. Boutwell · Harmon v. James · Cole v. Foster · Board of Education v. Southern Michigan National Bank · Dennington v. Mayor of Roberta
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the writ of mandamus seeks to enforce . . . the personal obligation of the individual to whom it is addressed. [Cit.] The writ does not reach the office nor can it be directed to the office. It acts directly on the person of the officer or other respondent, coercing him in the performance of a plain duty. It is a personal action against the officer and not one in rem against the office. [Cits.]”
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.