Collins v. Krucker’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Sears v. Hull (1998), State v. Phelps (1948)
37 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.
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule is that if the action of a public officer is discretionary that discretion may not be controlled by mandamus. This rule, however, is qualified by the -provision that if it clearly appears that the officer has acted arbitrarily and unjustly and in the abuse of discretion, the action may still be brought. * * * ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““There shall be in each of the organized counties of the state a superior court, for which at least one judge shall be elected by the qualified electors • of the county at the general election; Provided, that for each county having-a census enumeration. greater than thirty thousand inhabitants, one judge of the superior court for every additional thirty thousand inhabitants, or majority fraction thereof, may be. provided by law. * * *” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is apparent from this that the question ,as to whether the various . counties shall have more than one judge of the superior court, when the . census population exceeds 45,000, depends upon the will of the legislature, for the phrase ‘may be provided by law’, with no other qualification, is invariably held to refer to action by that body. We must, therefore, determine what it has decided upon this subject * * *»”
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.