Willeford v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
1 district · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2025
1 district · 21 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 Dickey v. Reed
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ Mandamus is an appropriate remedy where a public officer is called to perform a plain and specific public duty, positively required by law, calling for the use of no discretion, nor the exercise of official judgment.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. Hambleton
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.