Parrish v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 1991
11 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 Kimberly v. Morris · Trinity & Sabine Railway Co. v. Lane · Douglas v. People ex rel. Ruddy · 51 Tex. Civ. App. 292 - Robinson v. City of Galveston · Oilmen's Reciprocal Ass'n v. Gilleland
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`It is well settled that mandamus may properly be invoked to compel a reasonable exercise of official discretion where there is a failure or refusal to perform such duty resulting from an office, trust or station; that is, an officer may be compelled to act so far as is necessary to an actual exercise of his judgment or discretion in determining whether he ought to do or refrain from doing that which petitioner desires. Even though an officer have discretion, he cannot simply fold his hands and refuse to do anything....'”
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.