State Ex Rel. Bird v. Apodaca’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Methola v. County of Eddy (1980), State Ex Rel. Clark v. Johnson (1995)
102 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 Morton v. Mancari · Mitchell v. King · General Atomic Co. v. Felter · State Ex Rel. Sego v. Kirkpatrick · Martinez v. Research Park, Inc.
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“from doing what they know is an illegal act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“when issues of sufficient public importance are presented which involve a legal and not a factual determination, we will not hesitate to accept the responsibility of rendering a just and speedy disposition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Mandamus is defined to include an order `directing the restoration of the complainant to rights or privileges of which he has been illegally deprived.'”
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.