State v. Stirba’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 2025
11 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 State v. Workman · Monson v. Carver · Society of Professional Journalists v. Bullock · Salt Lake Child & Family Therapy Clinic, Inc. v. Frederick · Renn v. Utah State Board of Pardons
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“grant the extraordinary relief of a writ in the nature of mandamus, compelling a lower court’s!, an administrative agency’s, or the agency’s officers’] compliance, when the lower court[, administrative agency, or the agency’s officers] ha[ve] ... “failed to perform an act required by law as a duty of office, trust or station.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“compel correction of a public officer's gross abuse of discretion” (emphasis added)). 6 . Although lower tribunals should make explicit factual findings, the”
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.