State v. Cobb’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Dowdle v. Aurora Loan Services, Inc. (2003), 906 So. 2d 892 - Ex Parte Family Dollar Stores of Alabama, Inc. (2005)
63 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 Ex parte Newman · American Mut. Liability Ins. Co. v. Agricola Furnace · State ex rel. Pinney v. Williams · The Bank of Columbia v. George Sweeny · Ex Parte Wright
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' "The rules of law applicable to the case are simple and well settled. The writ of mandamus will lie from a superior to an inferior or subordinate court, in a proper case, to compel it to hear and decide a controversy of which it has jurisdiction; or, where the cause has been heard, to compel such inferior court to render judgment or enter a decree in the given case. But its use is not warranted to direct what particular judgment shall be rendered in a pending cause, nor is it the proper function of such remedial writ to re-examine, or correct errors in any judgment or decree so rendered. 'The rule applies to judicial as well as to ministerial acts, but it does not apply at all to a judicial act to correct an error, as where the act has been erroneously performed. If the duty is unperformed, and it be judicial in its character, the mandate will be to the judge directing him to exercise his judicial discretion or judgment, without any direction as to the manner in which it shall be done; or if it be ministerial, the mandamus will direct the specific act to be performed.' Ex parte Newman , [81] U.S. 152, 14 Wall. 152 , 169, 20 L.Ed. 877 [ (1871) ]; High on Extr. Rem. §§ 150-152, 266; Ex parte Schmidt , 62 Ala. 252 [ (1878) ]; Ex parte Mahone , 30 Ala. 49 [ (1857) ]. The principle, of course, universally prevails, that in no event will the writ ever be awarded where full and adequate relief can be had by appeal, writ of error, or otherwise.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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