Albert v. United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan’s Empirical Analysis
283 F.2d 61 · 1960
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently November 1990 · most notably Rosen v. Sugarman (1966), Hodgson v. Liquor Salesmen's Union Local No. 2 of the State of New York (1971)
38 federal appellate · 1 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 Roche v. Evaporated Milk Ass'n · Berger v. United States · Ex parte American Steel Barrel Co. · United States ex rel. McLennan v. Wilbur · United States Girard Trust Co v. Helvering
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Before petitioner may resort to the extraordinary writ of mandamus, he must establish that he has a clear and certain right and that the duties of the respondent are ministerial, plainly defined and peremptory.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the consideration by the District Judge of the sufficiency of the affidavit of bias and prejudice is not a ministerial, but a judicial act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not lie to compel a judge of an inferior court to reverse a decision made by him in the exercise of a legitimate jurisdiction,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.