Devin Woods v. Carl Ware’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on ITT Commercial Finance Corp. v. Mid-America Marine Supply Corp. · Southers v. City of Farmington · Davis v. Lambert-St. Louis International Airport · State Ex Rel. Eli Lilly & Co. v. Hon. Carl R. Gaertner · Richardson v. City of St. Louis
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A discretionary act requires the exercise of reason and discretion in determining how an act should be done or what course of action should be pursued.” Ware,' 471 S.W.3d at 392 (internal citation omitted). “A ministerial function is one which is of a clerical nature which a public officer is required to perform upon a given state of facts, in a prescribed manner, in obedience to the mandate of legal authority, without regard to his own judgment or opinion concerning the propriety of the act to be performed.” Id. (internal quotation dmitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is intended to provide protection for individual government actors who, despite limited resources and imperfect information, must exercise judgment in the performance of their duties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Its goal is also to permit public employees to make judgments affecting public safety and welfare without concern about possible personal liability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.