Amy v. The Supervisors’s Empirical Analysis
78 U.S. 136 · 1870
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1998 · most notably Davis v. Scherer (1984), Bogan v. Scott-Harris (1998)
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 46 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.
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Tile rule is well settled that, where the law requires absolutely a ministerial act to be done by a public officer, and he neglects or refuses to do such act, ne may be compelled to respond in damages to the extent o£ the injury arising from his conduct. There is an unbroken current of authorities to this effect. A mistake as to his duty and honest intentions will not excuse the offender.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Strong v. Day
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.