King v. Baldwin’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably State Ex Rel. Commissioner of Insurance v. North Carolina Rate Bureau (1980), Presnell v. Pell (1979)
82 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 In Re the Ad Valorem Valuation of Property of Pine Raleigh Corp. · State v. . Humphries · Harris v. . Board of Education · St. George v. Hanson · In Re the Appeal of Reeves Broadcasting Corp.
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The nature of mandamus and the limitations upon its use have been stated often. It suffices here to say that mandamus issues only to enforce a clear legal right. The writ will not lie to control the discretion vested in a governmental agency or official. It cannot be employed if other adequate means are available to correct the wrong for which redress is sought. Thus, when the legislature has provided an effective administrative remedy, it is exclusive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Any property owner, taxpayer or member of the board of county commissioners may except to the order of the board of equalization and review and appeal therefrom to the State Board of Assessment * * *.”
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.