Webb v. Reisel’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A public office is the right, authority and duty, created and conferred by law, by which for a given period, either fixed by law of enduring at the pleasure of the creating power, an individual is invested with some portion of the sovereign functions of the government, to be exercised by him for the benefit of the public. The individual so invested is the public officer. That portion of the sovereign's power delegated to the officer must be exercised independently, with some continuity and without control of a superior power other than the law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bolon v. Rolla Public Schools

2. “of a clerical nature which a public officer is required to perform upon a given state of facts, in a prescribed manner, in obedience to the mandate of legal authority, without regard to his own judgment or opinion concerning the propriety of the act to be performed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bolon v. Rolla Public Schools

3. “the exercise of reason in the adaption of means to an end, and discretion in determining how or whether an act should be done or a course pursued.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bolon v. Rolla Public Schools