Gross v. Sederstrom’s Empirical Analysis
429 F.2d 96 · 1970
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 1999
13 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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 Tenney v. Brandhove · Barr v. Matteo · United Gas Improvement Co. v. Continental Oil Co. · Willingham v. Morgan · Spalding v. Vilas
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Gross’] contention that the [members of the county ASCS Committee] were acting in a ministerial capacity rather than a judicial or discretionary capacity clearly lacks substance. The regulations outlining the duties of the County A.S. C.[S.] Committees gives them the broad responsibility for carrying out various government farm programs. 7 C.F.R. § 7.20 . The type of investigation undertaken in this case was essential to implementation of the Feed Grain Program. It is precisely the type of discretionary activity that the doctrine of governmental immunity was intended to protect. [Gross v. Sederstrom, supra, 429 F.2d at 99 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the act must have more or less connection with the general matters committed by law to the officer's control or supervision, and not be manifestly or palpably beyond his authority.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bushman v. Seiler
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.