Ambrosier v. Brownback’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 state decisions

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

1. “'move to statutory construction and use the canons of construction and legislative history and other background considerations to divine the legislature's intent.'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Glaze v. J.K. Williams, LLC · State v. Harris

2. “The only acts of public officials that the courts can control by mandamus are those strictly ministerial, meaning the public officer or agent is required to perform based upon a given set of facts, in a prescribed manner, in obedience to the mandate of legal authority, and without regard to his own judgment or opinion about the propriety or impropriety of the act to be performed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Frost v. Norwood

3. “meant to confer a specific legal right on any one party. This factor tips the scale toward construction of the word 'shall' as directory rather than mandatory.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Petition to Summon Grand Jury