Bush v. Vela’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently July 2014
18 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 Womack v. Berry · Crofts v. Court of Civil Appeals for the Eighth Supreme Judicial District · Anderson v. Polk · Maresca v. Marks · Winfrey v. Chandler
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The power of the Court of Civil Appeals to issue a writ of mandamus is extremely limited”). 13 . See Act of June 19, 1983, supra note 11. The statute, as amended, now reads:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Padilla v. McDaniel
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.