Mitlyng v. Wolff’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2000
8 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 Rosenblatt v. Baer · State Ex Rel. Jenson v. Civil Service Commission · Leininger v. City of Bloomington · Wilson v. City of Minneapolis · Kurtz v. City of Apple Valley
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a veteran cannot be removed — i.e. discharged — from his or her public employment except for incompeteney or misconduct “after a hearing.” * * * Until dis charge, the veteran is entitled to be paid.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Any person whose rights may be in any way prejudiced contrary to any of the provisions of this section, shall be entitled to a writ of mandamus to remedy the wrong_ No person holding a position by appointment or employment in the several counties, cities, towns, school districts and all other political subdivisions of the state, who is a veteran separated from the military service under honorable conditions, shall be removed from such position or employment except for incompetency or misconduct shown after a hearing, upon due notice, upon stated charges, in writing, (emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Any person whose rights may be in any way prejudiced contrary to any of the provisions of this section, shall be entitled to a writ of mandamus to remedy the wrong.”
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.