Adams v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1958
10 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 Phil. H. Pierce Co. v. Watkins · Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Canty · Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Muse · City of Houston v. City of Palestine · Yett v. Cook
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Art. 1823. 1592, 997 Writs of mandamus, etc. “Said courts and the judges thereof may issue writs of mandamus and-all other writs necessary to enforce the jurisdiction of said courts. Id. “Art. 1824. 1595, 1000 May mandamus district courts “Said Courts or any Judge thereof, in vacation, may issue the writ of Mandamus 'to compel a-Judge'of the District or County Court to proceed to trial and judgment in a cause, returnable as the nature of the case may require. ■ Acts 1st C.S., 1892, p. 25; Acts 1923, p. 110; Acts 1929, 41st Leg., p. 68, ch. 33, § 1.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Joslyn v. Fennell
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.