Raffel v. Pittsburgh’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 2005 · most notably Kaufman Construction Co. v. Holcomb (1947), Zeber Appeal (1959)
38 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 Souder v. Philadelphia · Thomas v. Connell · Bradycamp v. T. W. Metzger
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`Where a person or body is clothed with judicial, deliberative, or discretionary powers, and he or it has exercised such powers according to his or its discretion, mandamus will not lie to compel a revision or modification of the decision resulting from the exercise of such discretion, though, in fact, the decision may have been wrong.' Souder v. Philadelphia et al., 305 Pa. 1, 8 , 156 A. 245 ; Raffel v. Pittsburgh, 340 Pa. 243 , 16 A.2d 392 ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t is well settled that mandamus will never lie to compel a review of a decision of an administrative body or person invested with discretion, which has already acted in the matter in accordance with law.”
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.