Grider v. Tally’s Empirical Analysis
1884
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably 835 So. 2d 137 - Patterson v. Gladwin Corp. (2002), Broom v. Douglass (1912)
72 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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 In the Matter of the Life and Fire Insurance Company of New York v. The Heirs of Nicholas Wilson · Flournoy v. City of Jeffersonville · Commissioner of the General Land Office v. Smith · Rains v. Simpson · Morton, Bliss & Co. v. Comptroller General
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he duty is ministerial, when the law exacting its discharge, prescribes and defines the time, mode and occasion of its performance with such certainty that nothing remains for judgment or discretion”
2 later decisions 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.