English v. McCrary’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
195 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 197 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably United States v. Edwards (1981), State ex rel. Repository, Div. of Thompson Newspapers, Inc. v. Unger (1986)
195 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 Lamb v. State of Florida · State of Florida v. Sullivan · Kirstowsky v. Superior Court · Phoenix Newspapers, Inc. v. Superior Court · Delaney v. State
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 197 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Prohibition may only be granted when it is shown that a lower court is without jurisdiction or attempting to act in excess of jurisdiction.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“an inferior tribunal from acting in excess of jurisdiction but not to prevent an erroneous exercise of jurisdiction.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Prohibition lies to prevent an inferior tribunal from acting in excess of jurisdiction but not to prevent an erroneous exercise of jurisdiction. In this state, circuit courts are superior courts of general jurisdiction, and nothing is intended to be outside their jurisdiction except that which clearly and specially appears so to be.”
5 later decisions 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.