Ball v. Lappius’s Empirical Analysis
1868
Citation profile
1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 1933
1 district · 5 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 People ex rel. Bailey v. Supervisors of Greene · Van Rensselaer v. Sheriff of Albany · Ex parte Nelson · Rathbone & Banks v. Tucker & Carter · Hait v. Benson
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The writ of mandamus lies to compel an officer to perform an act which the law specially enjoins as a duty resulting from an office, trust or station. “It may require the officer to proceed to the discharge of any of his functions, although such discharge involves an exercise of discretion and judgment, and a choice between different modes of proceedings; yet ‘it shall not control judicial discretion’. And it is safe to go further, and say it shall not control discretion, judicial or otherwise, which the law assigns to an officer. (Judges of Oneida v. People, 18 Wend. 97 .) In such case the office of the writ is to compel the officer to act. The mode of acting is still to be determined by him in whom the law has lodged the discretionary power.””
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.