Ruggles v. Collier’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 1941 · most notably Hitchcock v. Galveston (1877), City of Nevada ex rel. Gilfillan v. Eddy (1894)
1 federal appellate · 42 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 Wayman v. Southard · Martin v. Mott · Blair v. Perpetual Insurance · John Beaty v. The Lessee of a Knowler · People ex rel. Moore v. Mayor of New York
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is a clear distinction to be observed between legislative and ministerial powers. The former cannot be delegated; the latter may. Legislative power implies judgment and discretion upon the part of those who exercise it, and a special confidence and trust upon the part of those who confer it. * * * “The nineteenth section of the ordinance is not only violative of the express and positive language of the statute, but it defeats the whole policy which was a primary consideration- in its passage. That exercise of judgment, discretion, and care, which the persons most deeply interested had a right to expect on the part of those to whom they committed their important trust, perhaps on account of their peculiar fitness,- is absolved and shifted, and placed in the mere discretion of a city officer.””
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.