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Wall v. Trumbull’s Empirical Analysis

1867

Citation profile

32
cited by 32 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
14
states following
July 2015
most recently cited

5 federal appellate · 1 district · 23 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2015 · most notably Burns v. Reed (1991), Wilson v. Beebe (1985)

5 federal appellate · 1 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 14 states

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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 Hays v. The Pacific Mail Steam-ship Co. · Charles Wilkes v. Samuel Dinsman · Savacool v. Boughton · Yates v. Lansing · Grumon v. Raymond

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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““ A ministerial officer has a line of conduct marked out for him, and has nothing to do but to follow it, and he must be held liable for any failure to do so which results in the injury of another. “A judicial officer, on the other hand, has certain powers confided to him, to be exercised according to his judgment •or discretion; and the law would be oppressive which should compel him in every case to decide correctly at his peril. It is accordingly a rule of very great antiquity that no action will lie against a judicial officer for any act done by him in the exercise of his judicial functions, provided the act, though done mistakenly, was within the scope of his jurisdiction.””
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Amperse v. Winslow · Davis v. Burris

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.