Utter v. Franklin’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 1937
4 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 United States v. Tynen · Utter v. Franklin · Thompson v. United States · Union Steamboat Company · Commissioners v. Sellew
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Upon the first point raised we deem it sufficient to say that the weight of authority in the state courts is in favor of the view that the writ of mandamus operates on the office, rather than on the individual who occupies the office, and therefore does not abate by a change of personnel in the office, and that no revivor is necessary against a successor of the officer against whom the proceedings were instituted.””
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.