State ex rel. Drake v. Doyle’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2017 · most notably Wisconsin v. Pelican Insurance (1888), Fire Ass'n of Philadelphia v. People of the State of New York (1886)
2 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We cannot think that either the power to grant a license or the power to revoke it involves the exercise of a judicial function. Both appear to us to be plainly and equally ministerial functions. The secretary, upon certain facts appearing to him, is authorized to issue a license; upon certain other facts appearing to him, is required to revoke it. This is a common condition of ministerial duty. In such a case, the ministerial officer must exercise his personal intelligence in ascertaining the fact upon which his authority is founded; ¡but he acts upon hiss peril of the fact, and can in no sense be said to exercise a judicial function. If the use of personal judgment in such cases should be held to be judicial, the distinction between ministerial and judicial functions would be very much removed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Speer v. Stephenson“Having no absolute right of recognition in other States, but depending for such recognition and enforcement of its contracts upon their assent, it follows as a matter of course that such assent may be granted upon such terms and conditions as those States may think proper to impose. They may exclude the foreign corporation entirely; they may restrict its business to particular localities, or they may exact such security for the performance of its contracts with their citizens as in their judgment will best promote the public interest. The whole matter rests in their discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The corporation, being the mere creation of local law, can have no legal existence beyond the limits of the sovereignty where created.”
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.