State Ex Rel. Thompson v. Rhoads’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently May 1997
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 State ex rel. Farmers Loan & Trust Co. v. Wrigley · O'Malia v. State · Railsback v. Walke · McMillan v. Plymouth Electric Light & Power Co. · State ex rel. Crow v. Etcheson
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.
““A writ of mandamus is an extraordinary writ which can be issued only to compel the performance of a clear legal duty. The pleadings must show that the duty of the respondent to perform the act is absolute and imperative. . . .” State ex rel. Thompson v. Rhoads (1946), 224 Ind. 136, 140 , 65 N. E. 2d 248 .”
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.