Kane v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 2004
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[M]inisterial acts are those to be carried out by employees, by the order of others or of the law, with little personal discretion as to the circumstances in which the act is done.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the execution of an arrest warrant is a ministerial rather than a discretionary function”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Santoni v. Potter
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.