Tucker v. Woolery’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2014
12 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
Relies on Pierson v. Ray · Stump v. Sparkman · Briscoe v. W · Mireles v. Waco · Antoine v. Byers & Anderson, Inc.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. Whether the act was performed by a judicial officer. 2. Whether the act was discretionary rather than ministerial. 3. Whether the act was within the jurisdiction of the officer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. D'Aoust v. Diamond“serves at the pleasure of the appointing court and is an officer of the court in which the referred matter is pending.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. (2008)
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.