Bair v. Struck’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 1981
18 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 Grider v. Tally · Farleigh v. Kelley · Yoder v. Reynolds · Hicks v. . Dorn · Pennington v. Streight
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`A ministerial act may perhaps be defined to be one which a person performs in a given state of facts, in a prescribed manner, in obedience to the mandate of legal authority, without regard to or the exercise of his own judgment upon the propriety of the act done.' [Throop on Public Officers, section 537;] Flournoy v. City of Jeffersonville, 17 Ind. 169 , 79 Am. Dec. 468 ; Pennington v. Streight, 54 Ind. 376 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * In the same line, a ministerial act has also been defined'as an act performed in a prescribed manner, in obedience to the law or the mandate of legal authority, without regard to, or the exercise of the judgment of the individual upon the propriety of the acts being done.’ Mechem on Public Officers, section 657.””
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.