Durkin v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
538 F.2d 1037 · 1976
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Daye v. Attorney General of New York (1982), Campbell v. McGruder (1978)
15 federal appellate · 13 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Picard v. Connor · Williams v. Illinois · Ex parte Lange · Tate v. Short
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“failed to establish a basis for the exercise of mandamus jurisdiction without reaching the substantive issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“doubts as to whether the issue has been so presented should be resolved against exhaustion”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Cuyler
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.