Heron v. Garcia’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 state decisions

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.

1. “"* * * We have stated a number of times that a case will not be reversed because the trial court gave a wrong reason for a correct judgment. * * *"”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Thomas v. Gardner · Little v. Price

2. ““Ordinarily the legal action of mandamus is the proper remedy to compel the performance of an official act by a public officer. It has been held that a mandatory injunction may be issued for such purpose (City of Dallas v. McElroy, Tex.Civ.App., 254 S.W. 599 ), although it is generally held that they are not correlative remedies (Lyle v. [City of] Chicago, 357 Ill. 41 , 191 N.E. 255 , 93 A.L.R. 1492 ). But however that may be, any order commanding a public officer to perform a ministerial duty is equivalent to a writ of mandamus, and should be governed by the rules for issuing such writs, Miguel v. McCarl, 291 U.S. 442 , 54 S.Ct. 465 , 78 L.Ed. 901 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Laumbach v. Board of County Commissioners of San Miguel County