Long v. Seabrook’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2018
2 federal appellate · 17 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 Parker v. Brown · Travelers Insurance v. Allstate Insurance · Oliveros v. Henderson · Dunbar v. Fant · Ryder v. Jefferson Hotel Company
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In contrast, a quasi-judicial duty requires the exercise of reason in the adaptation of means to an end, and discretion in determining how or whether the act shall be done or the course pursued.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is ministerial if it is defined by law with such precision as to leave nothing to the exercise of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.