Howley v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2004
13 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 Amy v. The Supervisors · Anderson v. Settergren · State v. Ruth
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The liability of a public officer for the failure or neglect to perform a duty imposed upon him by statute is clear (1) when such duty is a ministerial one,' (2) when the person injured is one to whom performance was due, and (3) when the failure to perform is the proximate cause of the injury sustained.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hawley v. Knott
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.