Allen v. Burrow’s Empirical Analysis
1904
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 1994
20 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 Meffert v. State Board of Medical Registration & Examination · Intoxicating-Liquor Cases · 5 E.H. Smith 359 - In Re Objections to the Certificate of Nomination of Fairchild · State ex rel. Godard v. Johnson · People ex rel. Eaton v. District Court
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Even arbitrary and capricious conduct, amounting to an abuse of discretion, will justify mandamus to compel a proper performance of duty, upon the theory that there has been, in fact, no real exercise of judgment.” (p. 821.)”
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.