Day v. Wright County’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently August 2010
3 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 Honn v. City of Coon Rapids · International Union of Operating Engineers, Local No. 49 v. City of Minneapolis · Chanhassen Estates Residents Ass'n v. City of Chanhassen · Enright v. City of Bloomington · State Ex Rel. Anderson v. Bellows
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mandamus will issue only when the petitioner has shown the existence of a legal right to the act demanded which is so clear and complete as not to admit any reasonable controversy. Similarly, mandamus will lie only to compel performance of a duty which the law clearly and positively requires.”
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.