Oyler v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2024 · most notably Idaho v. Coeur Tribe of Idaho (1997), Zimmerman v. First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n of Rapid City, S.D. (1988)
2 federal appellate · 21 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985
Relies on Scheuer v. Rhodes · Monroe v. Pape · Pierson v. Ray · Wood v. Strickland · Tenney v. Brandhove
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““... it is absolute, certain, and imperative, involving merely the execution of a set task, and when the law which imposes it prescribes and defines the time, mode, and occasion of its performance with such certainty that nothing remains for judgment or discretion. More specifically, where the law imposes on the officer the performance of ministerial duties in which a private individual has a special, direct, and distinctive interest, the officer is liable to such individual for any injury which he may proximately sustain in consequence of the failure to perform the duty at all, or to perform it properly.” (Footnote references omitted.) 67 C.J.S. Officers § 208, subsection c, “Ministerial Powers and Duties, p. 686.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n agent who contracts on behalf of a disclosed principal, in the absence of some other agreement to the contrary or other circumstances showing that he has expressly or impliedly incurred or intended to incur personal responsibility, is not liable to the other contracting party.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Any immunity in actions based on a contract entered into by a governmental entity is waived except to the extent provided by the contract if the contract was within the powers granted to the entity and was properly executed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.