Yeargin v. . Siler’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
May 1955
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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“Hence it is that, although a sheriff in some of his duties is a judicial officer, and as such may not act by deputy, yet in the main his duties are merely ministerial, and as to such it is implied, when not so provided by statute, that he may act by a substitute”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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