State Ex Rel. Alfred v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2012
2 federal appellate · 18 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 Morris v. Merchant · State Game Commission v. Tackett · State Ex Rel. Attorney General v. Reese · General Services Corp. v. Board of Commissioners · Westland Development Co. v. Saavedra
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.
“We can properly consider only those facts which appear in the transcript on appeal, which in this case is identical with the record proper in the district court. Upon a doubtful or deficient record[,] we indulge every presumption in support of the correctness and regularity of the decision of the trial court. Every reasonable intendment and presumption are resolved in favor of the proceedings and judgment in that court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“is a preventative and not a curative writ. It issues to prevent the commission of a future act and not to undo or correct that which has already been accomplished.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lepiscopo v. Tansy
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.