Mellinger v. Kuhn’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 1995 · most notably Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. v. Jerome (1978), Citizens Committee to Recall Rizzo v. Board of Elections (1976)
36 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 Travis v. Teter · Tanenbaum v. D'Ascenzo · Commonwealth ex rel. Snyder v. Mitchell · Dechert v. Commonwealth ex rel. Smart · Borough of Easton v. Lehigh Water Co.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is a well-established rule that he who sues for the writ of mandamus, must have some well-defined right to enforce, which is specific, complete and legal, and for which there is no other specific legal remedy, and the right he claims must be independent of that which he holds in common with the public at large." (emphasis added)”
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.