Board of Commissioners v. Aspinwall’s Empirical Analysis
65 U.S. 376 · 1860
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions (11 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2016 · most notably Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York (1978), Missouri v. Jenkins (1990)
25 federal appellate · 20 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No court having proper jurisdiction and process to compel the satisfaction of its own judgment can bo justified in turning its suitors over to another tribunal to obiain justice. A court of equity is only used when, the law is inadequate to enforce its own judgment or afford the proper remedy.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Supreme Court and all courts established by Act of Congress may issue all writs necessary or appropriate in aid of their respective jurisdictions and agreeable to the usages and principles of law.” 28 U.S.C. § 1651 . 8 . Courts should only exercise their authority under the All Writs Act”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A writ of mandamus is a remedy to compel any person, corporation, public functionary, or tribunal, to perform some duty required by law, where the party seeking relief has no other legal remedy, and the duty sought to be enforced is clear and indisputable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.