Dillon v. Bare’s Empirical Analysis
1906
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 1974
19 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 Ex parte Bradley · State ex rel. Fourth National Bank of Philadelphia v. Johnson · Illinois State Board of Dental Examiners v. People ex rel. Cooper · Marcum v. Ballot Com'rs · Council of Glencoe v. People ex rel. Owen
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The writ cannot be used for the correction of errors. If, however, such judgment or discretion is abused, and exercised in an arbitrary or capricious manner, mandamus will lie to compel a proper exercise thereof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hare
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.