Mauritz v. Schwind’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 1989
4 federal appellate · 6 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 Burke v. Dulaney · Burnett v. Atteberry · Holt v. Gordon · Thompson v. First State Bank of Amarillo · Blewitt v. . Boorum
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.
““ ‘Commonly the word has been defined as ministerial; pertaining to administration, particularly, having the character of executive or ministerial action; and when particularly applied to official duties connected with government, executive, a ministerial duty; one in which nothing is left to discretion.’ ” Maurtz v. Schwind, Tex.Civ.App., 101 S.W.2d 1085, 1090 (1937).”
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.